| 摘要 |
An apparatus and method for configuring available storage capacity that is available on a network as a logical device for common use thereof. The invention is preferably embodied in computer readable program code. The available storage capacity may be identified by monitoring storage resources on the network (e.g., NAS, SAN, PC attached storage, server attached storage, etc.) and determining the available storage capacity thereof. The available storage capacity is allocated for common use as a logical device, and managed according to a management policy. For example, the logical device may be managed by translating between access protocols, routing data to the portion of the logical device best suited to store the data, etc.
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