Patent ID: 6845428

Claim:
A storage system to store information written by a data processing system to a plurality of logical volumes, wherein the data processing system accesses the plurality of logical volumes in the storage system using a logical volume address, the storage system comprising: a plurality of storage devices that store the plurality of logical volumes; a plurality of controllers that each is coupled to at least one of the plurality of storage devices and controls access to the one of the plurality of storage devices; and a memory that stores a dynamic configuration table that includes information specifying dynamic assignments of resources in the storage system, the dynamic configuration table being indexed by the logical volume address, the dynamic assignments of resources in the storage system including one of a dynamic assignment of at least a portion of one of the plurality of storage devices to store at least a portion of one of the plurality of logical volumes, and a dynamic assignment of at least one logical volume to form a logical connection with another logical volume.