International Business Machines Corporation

Edward Martin McCrickard

Michael L Lamb

Raymond M Swank

Justin Russell Bendich

David Maxwell Cannon

Kevin Joseph Webster

David W Groves

Srinivas Jandhyala

Brian Augustine Delaire

Timothy Clarence Willging

Alireza Razzaghi Daryan

Barry Lynn Eberly

Steven M Corrigan

Stephen C Donovan

W Scott McCullough

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for provisioning storage resources according to a modeling policy. The modeling apparatus includes a monitoring module, a policy module, and a provisioning module. The monitoring module monitors the storage resources on the storage system. The policy module stores and maintains storage management, storage provisioning, and storage resource modeling policies. A user may access and specify these policies via a specification module. The provisioning module automatically provisions new storage resources, such as logical unit numbers (LUNs) according to the storage provisioning policies and modeling policies. The modeling policy defines a modeling strategy by which new storage resources are provisioned to include some or all of the attributes of a model storage resource.

Apparatus, system, and method for modeling for storage provisioning

One aspect of the invention is a method for responding to an inquiry. An example of the method includes receiving the inquiry, obtaining information from a CIMOM, and creating at least one Storage Object. This example of the method also includes populating the at least one Storage Object with information received from the CIMOM, and sending the at least one Storage Object to a calling function.

Common information model

Computing devices storing and executing applications across a network each include agent software to communicate with the application at the computing device to retrieve storage utilization information. At a server on the network, data representative of storage utilization by the applications executing at the several computing devices across the network is collected from the agents for processing.

Monitoring storage resources used by computer applications distributed across a network

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Edward Martin McCrickard