Patent ID: 7970907
Filing Date: 2011-06-28
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A machine readable storage device embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform a method for creating at least one LUN, the method comprising the following operations: receiving a request to create storage on a disk storage system, wherein the request specifies a LUN size and a requested number of LUNs; selecting a StoragePool object representing one of a plurality of storage pools having available storage space to create the requested number of LUNs; retrieving a StorageConfigurationService of the disk storage system using an association of all ComputerSystem objects to the selected StoragePool object; associating the ComputerSystem object representing the disk storage system with the StorageConfigurationService; setting the LUN size equal to a calculated size; setting the storage pool as the selected StoragePool object; and invoking a CreateOrModifyElementFromStoragePool( )method through the retrieved StorageConfigurationService for each LUN in the requested number of LUNs.