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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2003
Justin Russell Bendich, Austin, TX (US);
David Maxwell Cannon, Tucson, AR (US);
Alireza Razzaghi Daryan, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Brian Augustine Delaire, Fremont, CA (US);
Barry Lynn Eberly, San Jose, CA (US);
David Wilson Groves, San Jose, CA (US);
Srinivas Jandhyala, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Loren Lamb, San Jose, CA (US);
Edward Martin Mccrickard, Austin, TX (US);
Raymond Matthew Swank, Campbell, CA (US);
Justin Russell Bendich, Austin, TX (US);
David Maxwell Cannon, Tucson, AR (US);
Alireza Razzaghi Daryan, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Brian Augustine Delaire, Fremont, CA (US);
Barry Lynn Eberly, San Jose, CA (US);
David Wilson Groves, San Jose, CA (US);
Srinivas Jandhyala, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Loren Lamb, San Jose, CA (US);
Edward Martin McCrickard, Austin, TX (US);
Raymond Matthew Swank, Campbell, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for provisioning storage resources according to a modeling policy. The modeling apparatus includes a monitoring module, a policy module, and a provisioning module. The monitoring module monitors the storage resources on the storage system. The policy module stores and maintains storage management, storage provisioning, and storage resource modeling policies. A user may access and specify these policies via a specification module. The provisioning module automatically provisions new storage resources, such as logical unit numbers (LUNs) according to the storage provisioning policies and modeling policies. The modeling policy defines a modeling strategy by which new storage resources are provisioned to include some or all of the attributes of a model storage resource.