A technique is provided for implementing online restriping of a volume in a storage area network. A first instance of the volume is instantiated at a first port of the fibre channel fabric for enabling I/O operations to be performed at the volume. While restriping operations are being performed at the...http://www.google.de/patents/US7437507?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7437507 - Online restriping technique for distributed network based virtualization
