John M. Hayden

Thin provisioning of a file system and an iSCSI LUN through a common mechanism

Replication of a consistency group of data storage objects from servers in a data network

Replication and restoration of multiple data storage object types in a data network

Tiering storage between multiple classes of storage on the same container file system

Self healing file system

Implicit container per version set

Data storage server having common replication architecture for multiple storage object types

Scalable global namespace through referral redirection at the mapping layer

Reclaiming storage from a file system in a file server

Shared storage I/O elimination through mapping client integration into a hypervisor