Patent ID: 7792800

Claim:
A method of upgrading an original storage area network (SAN) repository of data, wherein a SAN repository is defined by a set of schema structures and data contained therein, the method comprising: exporting a copy of the original SAN repository; modifying the set of schema structures of the original SAN repository to create a set of schema structures of the upgraded SAN repository, wherein schema structures not present after the upgrading process is complete are not deleted until migration of data is completed; migrating data to the set of schema structures of the upgraded SAN repository, wherein data includes existing data from the original repository and seed data for the upgraded SAN repository, wherein existing data is copied into the appropriate schema structures of the upgraded SAN repository and seed data is inserted into new schema structures of the upgraded repository; creating a standard SAN repository through a full clean install including upgrades; and validating the set of schema structures of the upgraded SAN repository against a standard set of schema structures corresponding to the standard SAN repository to detect any errors.