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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsSanjay Shyam, Victor Sheng-Jian Liang, Savur Anand Rao, Stephen Merritt Branch, Patricia Driscoll Choi, Mark Edward Thomen
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A dynamic construct is associated with one or more operational parameters of one or more components of a storage management system, wherein a pointer to the construct is retained in metadata for the storage management system, the values of the construct are stored in a first repository separate from a second repository normally used to store the metadata for the storage management system. The value of the construct in the first repository is allowed to change dynamically at any point of time without affecting the metadata in the second repository. Thereafter, the value of the construct in the first repository is retrieved and used as the operational parameter, instead of a static value in the metadata in the second repository. This provides a level of indirection that allows the construct to be applied dynamically in the storage management system.
A computer-implemented method for specifying a dynamic construct in a storage management system, comprising:
An apparatus for specifying a dynamic construct in a storage management system format, comprising:
An article of manufacture embodying logic for specifying a dynamic construct in a storage management system, the logic comprising:
A dynamic construct stored in a device, wherein the dynamic construct is associated with an operational parameter of a component managed by a storage management system, the dynamic construct is stored in a first repository, a pointer associated with the dynamic construct is stored in a second repository, and the dynamic construct is modified in order to dynamically change the operational parameter.
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