STORAGE SERVICES AND SYSTEMS

摘要

Storage services and systems, more particularly services and systems that assist in creating frozen images, and/or snapshots of storage in a shared storage enviromenz are provided. Virtual disks include a number of storage states and are associated with storage operations that are provided with the virtual disks. Moreover, a storage management set of executable instructions is configured based on values assigned to the states when the storage operations are performed against the virtual disks. In some embodiments, a selection set of executable instructions permits the selective execution of the storage operations.