Patent 8938425 was granted and assigned to EMC on January, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method is used in managing logical views of storage. A logical view is created. The logical view includes a set of storage objects. A mapping object for the logical view is created. The mapping object manages access to the set of objects of the logical view. A snapshot copy of the logical view is created. The snapshot copy of the logical view shares a subset of the set of storage objects with the logical view. A version of the mapping object manages access to the snapshot copy.