Network authentication for a storage system

1. A method, comprising:

establishing a security context between a client and a storage system, the security context comprising a ticket for multiple nodes within the storage system, the establishing triggered by a remote procedure call received by the storage system;

distributing a first request to a first blade within the storage system, the distributing comprising transmitting a message to an authority owning the first request, the authority one of a plurality of authorities within the storage system; and

distributing a second request from the first blade to a second blade within the storage system, wherein the distributing the first request and the second request comprises:

determining, by the first blade, a node for handling the first request and a node for handling the second request based on data within the ticket.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein establishing the security context includes authentication through third party authorization.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the security context is incremented for each remote procedure call.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the storage system comprises multiple chassis and wherein the ticket includes a session key and a storage system key.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the multiple nodes of the storage system are projected as a single node.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the establishing comprises:

issuing a ticket through third party authorization.

7. The method of claim 1 , comprising:

caching a client principal name across all nodes.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ticket is encrypted.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the method operations are embodied as non-transitory computer readable media.

10. A storage system, comprising:

a plurality of storage nodes configured to communicate together as a storage cluster;

each of the plurality of storage nodes having nonvolatile solid-state memory for data storage; and

the plurality of storage nodes configured to distribute the data and metadata associated with the data throughout the plurality of storage nodes, the plurality of storage nodes configurable to:

establish a security context between a client and the plurality of storage nodes, the security context comprising a ticket for the plurality of storage nodes, establishment of the security context triggered by a remote procedure call received by the storage system;

distributing a first request to a first node within the storage system, the distributing comprising transmitting a message to an authority owning the first request, the authority one of a plurality of authorities within the storage system; and

distributing a second request from the first node to a second node within the storage system, wherein the distributing the first request and the second request comprises:

determining, by the first node, a further node for handling the first request and the second request based on data within the ticket.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein establishing the security context includes authentication through third party authorization.

12. The system of claim 10 , wherein the security context is incremented for each remote procedure call.

13. The system of claim 10 , wherein the storage system comprises multiple chassis and wherein the ticket includes a session key and a storage system key.

14. The system of claim 10 , wherein the plurality of nodes of the storage system are projected as a single node.

15. The system of claim 10 , wherein the establishing comprises:

issuing a ticket through third party authorization.

16. The system of claim 10 , comprising:

caching a client principal name across each of the plurality of nodes.

17. The system of claim 10 , wherein the ticket is encrypted.

18. The system of claim 10 wherein method operations of the plurality of storage nodes configurable are embodied as non-transitory computer readable media.