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Jeffrey B Gibson

Sukesh Kumar Biddappa

Anurag Jain

Stephen A Mendes

Brian D Burck

Seema Tahaliyani

Alexander Hoppe

Vladislav Dranov

Janardhan D Prabhakara

Bennett L Perkins

Kiran Karnam

Methods and apparatus to create with user input a first isolation zone in a block in a cloud computing environment, the block comprising first and second VSANs, a virtualization management VLAN, a file storage VLAN, and identity pools. The isolation zone can be applied to one or more services. The user can achieve a desired isolation between block components, such as VSANs and/or VLANs, in services.

Methods and apparatus for providing isolation zones in a cloud computing environment

Methods and apparatus to provide, in a cloud infrastructure environment a shared storage service with only storage, wherein the storage can be shared with other managed services. The storage is exposed to hosts with commands to the storage, networking, and compute resources.

Methods and apparatus for shared service provisioning

Methods and apparatus for a cloud storage system to add a first one of a compute, network, and/or storage layer resource to the service, provision the added first one of the compute, network, and/or storage layer resources, and activate the provisioned first one of the compute, network, and/or storage layer resources into the already provisioned service with minimal interruption of the service to elastically add a resource to the service.

Method and apparatus for elastic provisioning

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