Dynamic provisioning of storage in the cloud

• US 10,530,703 B2
• Filed: 08/15/2016
• Issued: 01/07/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ra, Moo-Ryong, Lee, Hee Won
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams, Clayton R
• Application Number:
  US15/236,621
• Publication Number:
  US 20180048584A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,240 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0896 Bandwidth or capacity management, i.e. automatically increasing or decreasing capacities flow or congestion control using dynamic resource allocation, e.g. in-call renegotiation, H04L47/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/40 using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5009 Determining service level performance parameters or violations of service level contracts, e.g. violations of agreed response time or mean time between failures [MTBF]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5096 wherein the managed service relates to distributed or central networked applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/781 Centralised allocation of resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/562 Brokering proxy services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70

Abstract

A system may dynamically provision an underlying storage implementation for cloud storage, such as cloud block storage services. They system allows for deferral of the storage provisioning process to the time at which a tenant actually requests a storage space.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled with the processor, the memory comprising executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to effectuate operations comprising;

receiving a first request associated with a cloud storage, wherein the first request comprises a minimum number of local discs;

responsive to receiving the first request, determining whether to engage a storage broker,

wherein the determining whether to engage the storage broker comprises determining whether a storage implementation exists that can support the first request; and

in response to a nonexistence of the storage implementation,

engaging the storage broker, and

creating, by the storage broker, a new storage implementation to support the request.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further operations comprising:

receiving a second request associated with the cloud storage;

responsive to receiving the second request, determining whether to engage a storage manager,

wherein the storage manager alters an existing storage implementation,

wherein the determining whether to engage the storage manager comprises determining resource availability of a plurality of nodes to accommodate the second request;

based on the resource availability of the existing storage implementation, engaging the storage manager and altering the existing storage implementation; and

receiving information comprising the status of the existing storage implementation.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the information comprises a number of logical volumes created in the existing storage implementation.

4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the altering of the existing storage implementation comprises creating a logical volume at the storage implementation that is based on information from the second request.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first request comprises a minimum replication of a volume.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the new storage implementation comprises redundant array of independent disks (RAID), just a bunch of disks (JBOD), or Ceph.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, further operations comprising receiving information comprising the status of the new storage implementation.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first request comprises a minimum number of storage pools.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first request comprises a type and storage amount.

10. A system comprising:

server; and

a provisioning device communicatively connected with the server, the provisioning device comprising;

a processor; and

a memory coupled with the processor, the memory comprising executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to effectuate operations comprising;

receiving a first request associated with a cloud storage, wherein the first request comprises a minimum number of local discs;

responsive to receiving the first request, determining whether to engage a storage broker,

wherein the determining whether to engage the storage broker comprises determining whether a storage implementation exists that can support the first request; and

in response to a nonexistence of the storage implementation,

engaging the storage broker, and

creating, by the storage broker, a new storage implementation on the server to support the first request.

11. The system of claim 10, further operations comprising:

receiving a second request associated with the cloud storage;

responsive to receiving the second request, determining whether to engage a storage manager,

wherein the storage manager alters an existing storage implementation,

wherein the determining whether to engage the storage manager comprises determining resource availability of a plurality of nodes to accommodate the second request;

based on the resource availability of the existing storage implementation, engaging the storage manager and altering the existing storage implementation on a first node of the plurality of nodes; and

receiving information comprising the status of the existing storage implementation.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the first request comprises a minimum replication of a volume.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the new storage implementation comprises redundant array of independent disks (RAID), just a bunch of disks (JBOD), or Ceph.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the first request comprises a minimum number of storage pools.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the information comprises a number of logical volumes created in the existing storage implementation.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the altering of the existing storage implementation comprises creating a logical volume at the storage implementation that is based on information from the second request.

17. A method comprising:

receiving, by a provisioning device, a first request associated with a cloud storage from a mobile device, wherein the first request comprises a minimum number of local discs;

responsive to receiving the first request, determining whether to engage a storage broker,

wherein the determining whether to engage the storage broker or the storage manager comprises determining, by the provisioning device, whether a storage implementation exists that can support the first request; and

in response to a nonexistence of the storage implementation,

engaging the storage broker, and

creating, by the storage broker, a new storage implementation to support the first request.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the first request comprises a minimum replication of a volume.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the first request new storage implementation comprises redundant array of independent disks (RAID), just a bunch of disks (JBOD), or Ceph.

20. The method of claim 17, further comprising providing the information to the mobile device for display.