System or method to automatically provision a storage volume by having an app-aware based appliance in a storage cloud environment

Abstract

Disclosed is a method and system for automatic end-to-end storage provisioning by an application aware appliance of a software application served by a computing cloud based on a user request for a cloud served software application. Embodiments may automatically select and configure both the server computing resources and the storage volume/array to implement a cloud based software application. A user request may identify characteristics of requested server computing resources, but need only specify the desired software application, and the embodiments will automatically select/create a storage volume/array and copy the requested software application onto the selected/created storage volume/array. Embodiments may also automatically create a remote volume/array mirror to permit failover in case of a problem with the primary storage volume/array and/or intelligently choose the type of storage volume/array to match high speed data storage to high speed applications and lower speed data storage to less input/output intensive applications.