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Red Hat Assigned Patent

Mounting specified storage resources from SAN in machine provisioning platform

Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC, has been assigned a patent (8,825,819) developed by Scott Jared Henson, Raleigh, NC, for “systems and methods for mounting specified storage resources from SAN in machine provisioning platform.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Embodiments relate to systems and methods for mounting specified storage resources from SAN in machine provisioning platform. A provisioning platform can communicate generate and maintain a provisioning profile encoding the software, hardware, and/or other resources to be provisioned to a target physical and/or VM. The provisioning profile can include a set of storage allocations for each target machine to be provisioned by the platform, indicating the high-level amounts, types, availability, so forth to be associated with each target. The provisioning profile can likewise include a set of storage specifications indicating specific disk types, manufacturers, and specific sources or pools in the set of storage resources available to the SAN to transparently fulfill the storage allocations. The target(s) can be assigned an alias to identify them to the SAN, and the provisioning platform can mount the corresponding storage resources during the provisioning or updating process.”

The patent application was filed on Nov. 30, 2009 (12/627,988).

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