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PROVISIONING STORAGE RESOURCES BASED ON AN EXPERT SYSTEM

  • US 20140324767A1
  • Filed: 12/28/2012
  • Published: 10/30/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of provisioning storage resources for a storage system, the method comprising:

  • receiving, from a user, a request to provision storage resources for the storage system, the request including values of a set of provisioning target parameters indicative of provisioning operation requirements;

    producing, from the values of the set of provisioning target parameters, a set of facts, each fact of the set of facts being configured as input into an expert system that includes a knowledge base and an inference engine, the knowledge base being configured to store a set of logical rules, the inference engine being configured to derive a storage provisioning decision from the set of facts and the knowledge base by firing particular logical rules of the set of logical rules;

    inputting the set of logical rules and the set of facts into the inference engine to produce the storage resource provisioning decision; and

    displaying the storage resource provisioning decision to the user.

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