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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
David C. Dysert, Holliston, MA (US);
Salvatore DeSimone, Woodbury, CT (US);
Puneet B. Lal, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Ananthan Kathiravelupillai, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Edgar J. St. Pierre, Venice, FL (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Example embodiments of the present invention provide a method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for providing information lifecycle management using a federation of arrays. The method includes receiving a request to provision storage resources of a one big array according to a class of service, the one big array comprising heterogeneous storage resources, and causing the requested storage resources to be provisioned according to a provisioning policy. Execution of an information lifecycle management policy then may be initiated for management of data stored to the storage resources according to the class of service.