Patent ID: 8326882

Claim:
In a storage system management device, a method of providing an environment management interface for a data storage system of a set of data storage systems, comprising: displaying, as part of the environment management interface, by the storage system management device, a first management display arrangement associated with a first data storage system of the set of data storage systems, the first management display arrangement having a set of navigation controls to provide user navigation to storage management functions associated with the first data storage system; receiving, by the storage system management device, a system selection command, the system selection command associated with a second data storage system of the set of data storage systems; dynamically adjusting the environment management interface, by the storage system management device, to display a second management display arrangement associated with the second data storage system of the set of data storage systems in response to receiving the system selection command, the second management display arrangement having the set of navigation controls configured to provide user navigation to storage management functions associated with the second data storage system; in response to receiving the system selection command, comparing, by the storage system management device, an attribute associated with the first data storage system with an attribute associated with the selected second data storage system; when the attribute associated with the first data storage system is the same as the attribute associated with the second data storage system, maintaining, by the storage system management device, the display of the set of navigation controls of the first management display arrangement as part of the second management display arrangement of the environment management interface, the functionality of the set of navigation controls of the second management display arrangement corresponding to the functionality of the set of navigation controls of the first management display arrangement; and when the attribute associated with the first data storage system is different from the attribute associated with the second data storage system, displaying, by the storage system management device, an updated set of navigation controls as part of the second management display arrangement, the functionality of the set of navigation controls of the second management display arrangement corresponding to functional requirements of the second data storage system.