Patent ID: 8555014
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for use in a computer system comprising a plurality of client computers and at least one storage system, the method comprising: receiving a first request for performance of a first task on the at least one storage system and a second request for performance of a second task on the at least one storage system; scheduling, at a controller, subsets of the plurality of clients to access at least one resource of the at least one storage system in order to service the first request and the second request prior to performing the first task and the second task, respectively, of the first request and the second request, wherein the scheduling includes: automatically configuring the at least one storage system to provide the first subset of the plurality of clients access to the at least one resource to perform the first task according to the scheduling by the controller; after the first task is completed, automatically re-configuring the storage system so that at least one client of the first subset of the plurality of clients is no longer provided with access to the at least one resource according to the scheduling by the controller, wherein the at least one client of the first subset is not included in the second subset; automatically configuring the at least one storage system to provide the second subset of the plurality of clients access to the at least one resource to perform the second task according to the scheduling by the controller.