1. A method of emulating a shared storage device in a distributed computing system, the method comprising: determining a storage unit identifier (ID) associated with a first local storage device in a first node of the distributed computing system; updating a first path handler to intercept storage requests including the storage unit ID and being made on the first node and forwarding the storage requests to drivers for an emulated shared storage device; associating a second local storage device in a second node of the distributed computing system with the storage unit ID; updating a second path handler to intercept storage requests including the storage unit ID and being made on the second node and forwarding the storage requests to the drivers for the emulated shared storage device; and intercepting storage requests including the storage unit ID and being made on the second node and forwarding the storage requests to the drivers for the emulated shared storage device.