ARCHITECTURE FOR GENERATING AND MAINTAINING VIRTUAL FILER ON FILER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To generate and maintain a plurality of virtual servers in a server.;SOLUTION: Architecture provides capability for generating and maintaining a plurality of instances of virtual servers such as virtual filers (vfilers) in one server such as a filer. Each vfiler is a logical division of network resources and storage resources of a filer platform to establish the instances of a multi-protocol server. In each vfiler, an individual security domain is further assigned to each access protocol so as to guarantee access control to an assigned resource and a shared resource. A vfiler boundary check is performed by a file system, and in regard to a file stored in a requested filer platform, it is decided whether a current vfiler can access a particular storage resource.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT