Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Seema Tahaliyani

Sukesh Kumar Biddappa

Anurag Jain

Stephen A Mendes

Jeffrey B Gibson

Douglas J Santoli

Alexander Hoppe

Vladislav Dranov

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 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

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