Patent ID: 8880793

Claim:
A storage management method comprising; establishing a cluster including one or more logical unit number storage components (LUNs) communicatively coupled to a plurality of host nodes including a master host node and one or more slave host nodes, each of said plurality of host nodes including a data structure associated with the host node that associates each of at least one LUN number of the one or more LUNs with an assigned name; performing a LUN naming process wherein: the master host node assigns a name to each of said one or more LUNs respectively, the process of assigning each name including updating the data structure associated with the master host node to associate each assigned name with the LUN number of the respective LUN, for a first LUN of said one or more LUNS that is communicatively coupled to a first slave host node of said one or more slave host nodes, the master host node forwards the name assigned to said first LUN to said first slave host node, and said first slave host node updates the data structure associated with said first slave node to associate said name assigned to said first LUN with said LUN number of said first LUN; and operating said cluster, wherein said first slave host node refers to said first LUN by said assigned name based on said assigned name being associated with said LUN number of said first LUN in said data structure associated with said first slave node.