Abstract: An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to identify data to be migrated from a first device to a second device, the first device comprising a first storage stack supporting a first storage request block protocol. The processing device is also configured to determine whether a second storage stack of the second device supports the first storage request block protocol and, responsive to determining that the second storage stack of the second device does not support the first storage request block protocol, to convert storage request blocks directed to the data to be migrated from a first format of the first storage request block protocol to a second format of a second storage request block protocol. The processing device is further configured to migrate the data to the second device utilizing input-output operations comprising the storage request blocks in the second format of the second storage request block protocol.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to identify data to be migrated from a first device to a second device, the first device comprising a first storage stack supporting a first storage request block protocol. The processing device is also configured to determine whether a second storage stack of the second device supports the first storage request block protocol and, responsive to determining that the second storage stack of the second device does not support the first storage request block protocol, to convert storage request blocks directed to the data to be migrated from a first format of the first storage request block protocol to a second format of a second storage request block protocol. The processing device is further configured to migrate the data to the second device utilizing input-output operations comprising the storage request blocks in the second format of the second storage request block protocol.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a first host device comprising a first multi-path input-output (MPIO) driver configured to discover additional MPIO drivers of additional host devices of an enterprise system that utilize a given piece of software for controlling delivery of input-output operations to a storage system over selected ones of a plurality of paths through a network, the given software being licensed by a license server external to the enterprise system. The first MPIO driver is also configured to obtain a pool of licenses for the given software from the license server and to receive from a given one of the additional MPIO drivers a request for a license to utilize the given software. The first MPIO driver is further configured to check out one of the pool of licenses and enable use of the given software by the given additional MPIO based at least in part on the checked-out license.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a first host device comprising a first multi-path input-output (MPIO) driver configured to discover additional MPIO drivers of additional host devices of an enterprise system that utilize a given piece of software for controlling delivery of input-output operations to a storage system over selected ones of a plurality of paths through a network, the given software being licensed by a license server external to the enterprise system. The first MPIO driver is also configured to obtain a pool of licenses for the given software from the license server and to receive from a given one of the additional MPIO drivers a request for a license to utilize the given software. The first MPIO driver is further configured to check out one of the pool of licenses and enable use of the given software by the given additional MPIO based at least in part on the checked-out license.