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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HOST VOLUME MAPPING FOR SHARED STORAGE VOLUMES IN A MULTI-HOST COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HOST VOLUME MAPPING FOR SHARED STORAGE VOLUMES IN A MULTI-HOST COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
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机译:多主机计算环境中共享存储卷的主机卷映射系统和方法
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The invention provides structure and method for controlling access to a shared storage device, such as a disk drive storage array, in computer systems and networks having a plurality of host computers. A method for controlling access to a hardware device in a computer system having a plurality of computers and at least one hardware device connected to the plurality of computers. The method includes the steps of associating a locally unique identifier with each the plurality of computers, defining a data structure in a memory identifying which particular ones of the computers based on the locally unique identifier may be granted access to the device; and querying the data structure to determine if a requesting one of the computers should be granted access to the hardware device. In one embodiment, the procedure for defining the data structure in memory includes defining a host computer ID map data structure in the memory; defining a port mapping table data structure comprising a plurality of port mapping table entries in the memory; defining a host identifier list data structure in the memory; defining a volume permission table data structure in the memory; and defining a volume number table data structure in the memory. In one particular embodiment, the memory is a memory of a memory controller controlling the hardware device, and the hardware device is a logical volume of a storage subsystem. The invention also provides an inventive controller structure, and a computer program product implementing the inventive method.
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