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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorStephen P. Strutt
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A provisioning apparatus operable with a virtualisation layer in a server, for provisioning a storage volume associated with a physical storage device to a virtual server in a storage area network. The provisioning apparatus includes a discovery component for transmitting a request to the virtual server to identify one or more storage volumes, and a receiving component for receiving a first unique identifier associated with the or each located storage volume from the virtual server. A comparing component determines from configuration data associated with the or each located storage volume a second unique identifier associated with the each of the located storage volumes. A comparing component compares the or each first unique identifier received from the virtual server with the or each of the second unique identifier associated with the configuration data to find a matching identifier.
A provisioning apparatus operable with a virtualization layer in a server, for provisioning a storage volume associated with a physical storage device to a virtual server in a storage area network, the provisioning apparatus comprising:
A method of provisioning a storage volume associated with a physical storage device to a virtual server in a storage area network, the provisioning method comprising:
A computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, comprising software code portions for performing, when said product is run on a computer, a method of provisioning a storage volume associated with a physical storage device to a virtual server in a storage area network, the method comprising:
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