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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Daniel I. Goodman, Beit Shemesh, IL;
Ran Harel, Kfar-Saba, IL;
Rivka M. Matosevich, Zichron-Ya'acov, IL;
Orit Nissan-Messing, Hod HaSharon, IL;
Yossi Siles, Tel-Mond, IL;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include receiving, by a first computer in communication with a storage system, multiple resource packs, each of the resource packs including a plurality of attributes for storage resources on the storage system. Upon the first computer receiving a request from a second computer for a storage service, one or more of the received resource packs are identified that have respective attributes matching the storage service, a given identified resource pack is selected and the given identified resource pack is conveyed to the second computer. In some embodiments, the given identified resource pack can be conveyed by conveying an allocation request to the storage system for a portion of the given identified resource pack, and in response to the request, the storage system can allocate the requested portion of the given identified resource pack to the second computer.