Patent ID: 8782163

Claim:
A method, comprising: determining to load a virtual volume of a storage network on a first computing device communicably connected to the storage network utilizing a controlling application; sending a first load command to the first computing device, causing the virtual volume to mount on the first computing device, utilizing the controlling application; determining to load the virtual volume on a second computing device communicably connected to the storage network utilizing the controlling application, wherein only one of the first computing device and second computing device mounts the virtual volume at any time; sending an eject command to the first computing device, causing the virtual volume to unmount from the first computing device, utilizing the controlling application; and sending a second load command to the second computing device, causing the virtual volume to mount on the second computing device, utilizing the controlling application, wherein the second load command is sent after the eject command is sent, further in which the first computing device and the second computing device share data by transferring the data from the first computing device to the virtual volume so that the second computing device can access the data, the second computing device able read and write the data.