Patent ID: 7085827

Claim:
A system, comprising: a connection to a virtual private network; a router, connected to said virtual private network, wherein said router maintains at least one virtual router for a client, wherein the router receives packets from the virtual private network, each packet having a VPN ID, wherein the router uses the VPN ID and a dedicated virtual routing table to filter packets to the virtual router associated with the VPN ID, wherein the virtual router adds tag information based on the VPN ID to the packets before transmitting the packets to the virtual LAN switch, thereby enabling virtual separation of packets within the router and enabling IP addresses spaces within a private address range to overlap between different clients; at least one server, said server having at least one logical partition, each server having server identification information; an administration server; a virtual LAN switch, connected to said router, said virtual LAN switch providing selectable forwarding of information from said router to said at least one logical partition of said at least one server, said virtual LAN switch using the tag information and a dedicated server table to forward the packets to an appropriate logical partition of said at least one server; at least one volume, said at least one volume accepting of information for storage thereon, said information having a shared portion and a non-shared portion; fibre channel (FC) switch, wherein said fibre channel (FC) switch provides selectable interconnection between said at least one logical partition of said at least one server and said at least one volume, wherein the fibre channel (FC) switch uses the server identification information and a storage table to determine an appropriate one of said at least one volume, to confirm rights of the server to access the determined volume, and to forward the packets from the server to the determined one of said at least one volume, and wherein said shared portion of said information is accessible via said administration server.