CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE AND ASSOCIATED METHODS THEREOF

• US 20180048712A1
• Filed: 08/12/2016
• Published: 02/15/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
• Original Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
• Inventors: Sarisky, Daniel Andrew, Holloway, Dale, Howard, JR., Dan Ross
• Granted Patent: US 10,009,426 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0604 Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. storage management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0619 in relation to data integrity, e.g. data losses, bit errors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0631 by allocating resources to storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0853 by actively collecting configuration information or by backing up configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0879 Manual configuration through operator
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/40 using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities
• 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]

Abstract

Methods and systems for a networked storage environment are provided. One method includes retrieving network access information by a management console to connect to a storage system node in a converged infrastructure (CI) environment with defined configuration requirements for deploying the storage system node that manages a plurality of storage devices; performing an initial determination to ascertain that the storage system node is capable of meeting the CI environment configuration requirements; configuring a plurality of network data ports of the storage system node for sending and receiving data to and from a client system to meet the CI environment configuration requirements; creating an aggregate having storage space at the plurality of storage devices to meet the CI environment configuration requirements for storage devices; and generating a storage volume in compliance with the CI environment configuration requirements.

Claims

1. A machine implemented method, comprising;

retrieving network access information by a management console to connect to a storage system node in a converged infrastructure (CI) environment with defined configuration requirements for a compute node, a networking node and a storage solution for deploying the storage system node that manages a plurality of storage devices;

performing an initial determination by the management console to ascertain that the storage system node is capable of meeting the CI environment configuration requirements;

configuring by the management console a plurality of network data ports of the storage system node for sending and receiving data to and from a client system to meet the CI environment configuration requirements;

creating by the management console an aggregate having storage space at the plurality of storage devices to meet the CI environment configuration requirements for storage devices; and

generating by the management console a storage volume in compliance with the CI environment configuration requirements.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein to configure the plurality of network data ports, the management console discovers ports used by a cluster with the storage system node and selecting highest speed data ports to operate within the CI environment.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein only even number of data ports are used in the CI environment.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the management console discovers the plurality of storage devices and the aggregate is created after selecting any broken storage device as a spare storage device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the management console generates the storage volume based on a total space allocated for the aggregate.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein when the total space of the aggregate is less than size of the storage volume, then the size of the storage volume is set based on a percentage of the total space of the aggregate.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the management console resets the storage system node from the CI configuration by removing partitions and ownership to the plurality of storage devices.

8. A non-transitory, machine-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions for performing a method, comprising machine executable code which when executed by at least one machine, causes the machine to:

retrieve network access information by a management console to connect to a storage system node in a converged infrastructure (CI) environment with defined configuration requirements for a compute node, a networking node and a storage solution for deploying the storage system node that manages a plurality of storage devices;

perform an initial determination by the management console to ascertain that the storage system node is capable of meeting the CI environment configuration requirements;

configure by the management console a plurality of network data ports of the storage system node for sending and receiving data to and from a client system to meet the CI environment configuration requirements;

create by the management console an aggregate having storage space at the plurality of storage devices to meet the CI environment configuration requirements for storage devices; and

generate by the management console a storage volume in compliance with the CI environment configuration requirements.

9. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 8, wherein to configure the plurality of network data ports, the management console discovers ports used by a cluster with the storage system node and selecting highest speed data ports to operate within the CI environment.

10. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 9, wherein only even number of data ports are used in the CI environment.

11. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 8, wherein the management console discovers the plurality of storage devices and the aggregate is created after selecting any broken storage device as a spare storage device.

12. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 8, wherein the management console generates the storage volume based on a total space allocated for the aggregate.

13. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 12, wherein when the total space of the aggregate is less than size of the storage volume, then the size of the storage volume is set based on a percentage of the total space of the aggregate.

14. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 8,

wherein the management console resets the storage system node from the CI configuration by removing partitions and ownership to the plurality of storage devices.

15. A system, comprising:

a memory containing machine readable medium comprising machine executable code having stored thereon instructions; and

a processor module of a management console coupled to the memory, the processor module configured to execute the machine executable code to;

retrieve network access information to connect to a storage system node in a converged infrastructure (CI) environment with defined configuration requirements for a compute node, a networking node and a storage solution for deploying the storage system node that manages a plurality of storage devices;

perform an initial determination to ascertain that the storage system node is capable of meeting the CI environment configuration requirements;

configure a plurality of network data ports of the storage system node for sending and receiving data to and from a client system to meet the CI environment configuration requirements;

create an aggregate having storage space at the plurality of storage devices to meet the CI environment configuration requirements for storage devices; and

generate a storage volume in compliance with the CI environment configuration requirements.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein to configure the plurality of network data ports, the management console discovers ports used by a cluster with the storage system node and selecting highest speed data ports to operate within the CI environment.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the management console discovers the plurality of storage devices and the aggregate is created after selecting any broken storage device as a spare storage device.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the storage volume is generated based on a total space allocated for the aggregate.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein when the total space of the aggregate is less than size of the storage volume, then the size of the storage volume is set based on a percentage of the total space of the aggregate.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the management console resets the storage system node from the CI configuration by removing partitions and ownership to the plurality of storage devices.