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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2010
Sandip Agarwala, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Harsha D. Gunatilaka, Tucson, AZ (US);
Ramani R. Routray, San Jose, CA (US);
Sandip Agarwala, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Harsha D. Gunatilaka, Tucson, AZ (US);
Ramani R. Routray, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments for efficiently provisioning a storage area network (SAN) are provided. In one embodiment, SAN information is provided to an engine for optimization. The SAN information includes at least one of SAN configuration information, SAN usage information, at least one cost profile, and at least one chargeback model. Based on the SAN information, those of an available plurality of storage resources not meeting at least one storage criterion are filtered. The filtered storage resources are ranked on a cost basis. A resource configuration graph is constructed based on the ranked storage resources. The resource configuration graph is traversed to obtain a plurality of possible SAN configuration plans. At least one power profile is applied to the plurality of possible SAN configuration plans to rank the plurality of possible SAN configuration plans by energy consumption.