Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Emc Corporation

Sukesh Kumar Biddappa

Anurag Jain

Stephen A Mendes

Jeffrey B Gibson

Seema Tahaliyani

David Gillam

Ameer Jabbar

Vladislav Dranov

Alexander Hoppe

Brian D Burck

Douglas J Santoli

Kiran Karnam

Janardhan D Prabhakara

Barbara S Tzanakis

Bennett L Perkins

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

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

Methods and apparatus to create zones for ports from a storage layer to a compute layer both coupled to a storage area network switch. In one embodiment, the storage layer includes ports in field replaceable unit (FRU) port groups, the port groups in FRU adapters, and the adapters in FRU adapter groups. The ports can be selected to minimize single points of failure.

Method and apparatus for topology driven zoning

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Murphy, TX, United States of America

Sukesh Kumar Biddappa