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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2002
Paul M. Bober, Lexington, MA (US);
Jason D. Lindholm, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jeffrey L. Alexander, Watertown, MA (US);
Sheldon Lowenthal, Lexington, MA (US);
Paul M. Bober, Lexington, MA (US);
Jason D. Lindholm, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jeffrey L. Alexander, Watertown, MA (US);
Sheldon Lowenthal, Lexington, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for automatically provisioning at least a portion of a computer system to meet a specification provided in a provisioning request. In one embodiment, the provisioning includes provisioning at least one resource from each of at least one host computer, at least one storage system, and at least one connectivity resource that connects the at least one host computer to the at least one storage system. In another embodiment, the provisioning includes selecting and configuring at least one logical volume of storage and configuring the computer system to provide access to the selected volume. In another aspect, a computer-readable provisioning transaction is created to provision the computer system, and a computer-readable undo transaction is created to undo it. In a further embodiment, an existing computer system is reverse engineered to create a specification that is modified to create the specification in the provisioning request.