Patent ID: 8214377

Claim:
An article of manufacture for managing storage objects, wherein the article of manufacture comprises a device including code that when executed causes operations to be performed, the operations comprising: providing storage object information for each storage object, wherein the storage object information indicates at least one of a plurality of groups associated with the storage object, and wherein each storage object is capable of being associated with a plurality of groups and different group types; providing group information for each group indicating a group identifier, storage objects associated with the group, and a group type, wherein the group type indicates a relationship of the storage objects associated with the group; initiating a storage object management operation to remove one of the storage objects; determining a group type of one group with which the storage object to remove is associated; processing at least one additional storage object associated with the group with which the storage object to remove is associated to perform the storage object remove operation, wherein different group type specific operations are performed to process the at least one additional storage object to implement the storage object remove operation for different group types; and processing storage object information for the storage object to remove, wherein information on all the groups associated with the storage object to remove are processed before removing the storage object information.