Storage area network methods and apparatus for dynamically enabled storage device masking
US7069395B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 5, 2001 |
| Grant date | Jun 27, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 3, 2024 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/1001
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A storage area network has one or more digital data processors, e.g., hosts, in communication with one or more storage devices. At least a selected one of the hosts has an operating system in which a storage device must be claimed before the storage device can be accessed by applications programs executing on that host. The improvement is characterized by a selectively actuable filter, e.g., loaded with the selected host operating system, that when downloaded and actuated to a host intervenes to block claiming of one or more selected storage devices.
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