PROVIDING STORAGE SERVICE TO TENANT IN CLOUD STORAGE ENVIRONMENT

• US 20160197995A1
• Filed: 12/16/2015
• Published: 07/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Emc IP Holding Company LLC (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: EMC Corporation (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Chang, Henry Haihua, Guo, Wenrey Wenlei, Lu, Patrick Minggang, Chen, Chao, Wu, Sandro Jiawei
• Application Number:
  US14/971,137
• Publication Number:
  US 20160197995A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 67/61 taking into account QoS or priority requirements

Abstract

A method and apparatus for providing storage service to a tenant in a cloud storage environment. Specifically, in one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing storage service to a tenant in a cloud storage environment, comprising: extracting from a request from the tenant a storage service requirement associated with the request; acquiring from the cloud storage environment at least one logical drive meeting the storage service requirement; building a virtual storage container associated with the at least one logical drive; and providing requested storage service to the tenant via the virtual storage container. In one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for providing storage service to a tenant in a cloud storage environment. By means of the method and apparatus of the present invention, customized storage service can be provided to tenants more efficiently.

Claims

1. A method for providing storage service to a tenant in a cloud storage environment, comprising:

extracting from a request from the tenant a storage service requirement associated with the request;

acquiring from the cloud storage environment at least one logical drive meeting the storage service requirement;

building a virtual storage container associated with the at least one logical drive; and

providing requested storage service to the tenant via the virtual storage container.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the acquiring from the cloud storage environment at least one logical drive meeting the storage service requirement comprises:

obtaining a QoS requirement associated with the storage service requirement; and

searching a configuration list that includes QoS provided by various logical drives in the cloud storage environment, so as to find at least one logical drive matching the QoS requirement.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the configuration list further records application containers for managing various logical drives in the cloud storage environment;

and

the building a virtual storage container associated with the at least one logical drive comprises;

associating the virtual storage container with the application container.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the providing requested storage service to the tenant via the virtual storage container comprises:

providing the requested storage service to the tenant via the application container associated with the virtual storage container.

5. The method according to any of claims 1 to 4, wherein the QoS requirement comprises at least one of:

access speed, and response time.

6. The method according to any of claims 1 to 4, further comprising:

acquiring a service type requirement from the tenant, the service type requirement describing a type of data service which the tenant wants to start in the storage service; and

the providing requested storage service to the tenant via the virtual storage container comprises;

providing the type of data service to the tenant via the virtual storage container.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the configuration list further records data service containers for managing types of data service provided to the tenant;

and

the building a virtual storage container associated with the at least one logical drive comprises;

associating the virtual storage container with the data service container.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the providing requested storage service to the tenant via the virtual storage container comprises:

providing the type of data service to the tenant via the data service container associated with the virtual storage container.

9. The method according to claim 6, wherein the type of the data service comprises at least one of:

de-duplication, replication, FAST VP and FAST Cache.

10. The method according to any of claims 1 to 4, wherein the logical drive is a Logical Unit Number.

11. An apparatus for providing storage service to a tenant in a cloud storage environment, comprising:

an extracting module configured to extract from a request from the tenant a storage service requirement associated with the request;

an acquiring module configured to acquire from the cloud storage environment at least one logical drive meeting the storage service requirement;

a building module configured to build a virtual storage container associated with the at least one logical drive; and

a providing module configured to provide requested storage service to the tenant via the virtual storage container.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the acquiring module comprises:

an obtaining module configured to obtain a QoS requirement associated with the storage service requirement; and

a searching module configured to search a configuration list that includes QoS provided by various logical drives in the cloud storage environment, so as to find at least one logical drive matching the QoS requirement.

13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the configuration list further records application containers for managing various logical drives in the cloud storage environment;

and

the building module is further configured to associate the virtual storage container with the application container.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the providing module is further configured to provide the requested storage service to the tenant via the application container associated with the virtual storage container.

15. The apparatus according to any of claims 11 to 14, wherein the QoS requirement comprises at least one of:

access speed, and response time.

16. The apparatus according to any of claims 11 to 14, further comprising:

a type acquiring module configured to acquire a service type requirement from the tenant, the service type requirement describing a type of data service which the tenant wants to start in the storage service; and

the providing module is further configured to provide the type of data service to the tenant via the virtual storage container.

17. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the configuration list further records data service containers for managing types of data service provided to the tenant;

and

the building module is further configured to associate the virtual storage container with the data service container.

18. The apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the providing module is further configured to provide the type of data service to the tenant via the data service container associated with the virtual storage container.

19. The apparatus according to claim 16, wherein type of the data service comprises at least one of:

de-duplication, replication, FAST VP and FAST Cache.