Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory – Storage accessing and control – Control technique
Reexamination Certificate
2006-06-20
2006-06-20
Peugh, Brian R. (Department: 2187)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory
Storage accessing and control
Control technique
C711S147000, C711S112000, C709S214000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07065616
ABSTRACT:
A storage provisioning policy is created by specifying storage heuristics for storage attributes using storage heuristic metadata. Storage attributes characterize a storage device and storage heuristic metadata describe how to specify a storage heuristic. Using the storage heuristic metadata, storage heuristics are defined to express a rule or constraint as a function of a storage attribute. In addition, the storage provisioning policy may also specify mapping rules for exporting the storage to a consumer of the storage, such as the server or server cluster.
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Collins Jim
Gajjar Kumar
Meyer Richard
Patel Dipam
Prasad Chandra
Network Appliance Inc.
Peugh Brian R.
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