Patent ID: 8504693

Claim:
A method comprising: determining, via a manageability services module of a manageability engine on a client computing device, a storage area network logical unit number to connect to, the storage area network logical unit number corresponds to a logical storage device on a remote storage server; establishing, on the client computing device, a connection to the remote storage server as a function of the storage area network logical unit number determined via the manageability services module; presenting, on the client computing device, the logical storage device on the remote storage server as a local storage device; encapsulating, on the client computing device, a block oriented storage protocol login request in a first Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) POST message to be forwarded to the remote storage server over a storage area network; receiving, on the client computing device, a login response to the block oriented storage protocol login request, the login response encapsulated in a first HTTP response message transmitted from the remote storage server; encapsulating, on the client computing device, a block oriented storage protocol request in a second HTTP POST message to be forwarded to the remote storage server over the storage area network, the block oriented storage protocol request being encapsulated in the second HTTP POST message as a first octet stream; and receiving, on the client computing device, a response to the block oriented storage protocol request, wherein the response encapsulated in a second HTTP response message transmitted from the remote storage server, and wherein the response to the block oriented storage protocol request being encapsulated in the second HTTP response message as a second octet stream.