Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Emc Company

Douglas J Santoli

Anurag Jain

David Gillam

Frederick A Crable

Stephen A Mendes

Sukesh Kumar Biddappa

Patrick J Hunt

Seema Tahaliyani

Nandakishore Venkatesan

Barbara S Tzanakis

Methods and apparatus to provide, in a cloud infrastructure environment, an array agnostic automated storage tiering mechanism, wherein storage array types may be different. A user can select storage with an automated storage tiering policy while details of the storage are abstracted for the user. In embodiments, tiering policies determine a location for data based upon activity associated with the data.

Methods and apparatus for array agnostic automated storage tiering

Methods and apparatus to provide command abstraction. In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining information on commands for a plurality of devices including devices of the same type having different command structures, receiving a generic command from a user directed to one of the devices of the same type, determining, using a computer processor, whether the generic command is supported, extracting parameters from the generic command, and generating from the extracted parameters and the generic command a device-specific command for execution by the one of the devices of the same type.

Method and apparatus for command abstraction

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