Patent ID: 6496914
Filing Date: 2002-12-17
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
A method of configuring an operating system on a host administering a plurality of storage devices, with controllers on a network, comprising:for storage devices, which are storage arrays, on the network, and which support world wide name signatures, building a first class of unique Lun signature for each such storage device, based on the world wide name signature of each storage device, in the operating system and in the controllers on the network; for storage devices, which are storage arrays, on the network, and which do not support world wide name signatures, but have storage processor based signatures, building a second class of unique Lun signatures for each such storage device, based on the storage processor based signature of each such storage device, in the operating system and in controllers on the network; and for storage devices, which are not storage arrays, on the network, building a third class of unique Lun signature for each such storage device, in the operating system and in controllers on the network.