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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2008
Paula E. Mcadam, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Subbulakshmi Premkumar, Sudbury, MA (US);
Paul O. Malenfant, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Russell R. Laporte, Webster, MA (US);
Scott Von Rhee, Boston, MA (US);
Paula E. McAdam, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Subbulakshmi Premkumar, Sudbury, MA (US);
Paul O. Malenfant, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Russell R. Laporte, Webster, MA (US);
Scott Von Rhee, Boston, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method is used in facilitating storage pool provisioning. A sequence of user interface screens is provided for configuring one or more physical devices of a data storage system for use in connection with provisioning a storage pool. By the sequence, a provisioning specification describing a RAID type and capacity is received. Best practices information describing one or more sets of data storage system best practices is received. By the sequence, a proposal is presented for performing configuration processing in connection with initialization of the data storage system to configure a first portion of the one or more physical devices for use with the storage pool. The best practices information is used in producing the proposal.