The storage controller 102 is configured to receive input/output (I/O) requests from the host computational devices 108 and provide access to a plurality of storage devices 110, 112 that are present in the computing environment 100. The storage controller 102 allows the one or more hosts computing devices 108 to perform input/output (I/O) operations with logical storage maintained by the storage controller 102. The physical storage corresponding to the logical storage may be found in one or more of the storage devices 110, 112 and/or a cache of the storage controllers 102.

The storage controller 102 and the host computational devices 108 may comprise any suitable computational device including those presently known in the art, such as, a personal computer, a workstation, a server, a mainframe, a hand held computer, a palm top computer, a telephony device, a network appliance, a blade computer, a processing device, a controller, etc.

The storage controller 102, the host computational devices 108, and the storage devices 110, 112 may be elements in any suitable network, such as, a storage area network, a wide area network, the Internet, an intranet, etc. In certain embodiments, the storage controller 102, the host computational devices 108, and the storage devices 110, 112 may be elements in a cloud computing environment.

The plurality of storage devices 110, 112 may be comprised of any storage devices known in the art, such as solid state drives (SSD), hard disk drives (HDD), etc., that may be configured as a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID).