Patent ID: 7340579

Claim:
A system comprising: a processor; a connection device for connecting to other components via a storage area network (SAN); and management application running on said processor that provides the following functionality: displaying, within a host-centric logical view of the SAN, a host partition hierarchy and storage resource ownership for an attached scalable host system having a plurality of logical and physical partitions, at least some of the partitions having dedicated HBAs and SAN connectivity via a bundled fibre channel switch in the host system, wherein said host-centric view includes the host system, hosting operating systems (OSes), hosted OSes for each hosting OS, OS volumes for each hosted OS, and logical mapping of each OS volume to a SAN storage resource; and providing a view of a connectivity of hosting and trusted components within the host-centric logical view, said components selected from among partitions, blades, and clusters.