Assigning or creating a resource in a storage system

• US 8,627,001 B2
• Filed: 03/16/2011
• Issued: 01/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Groves, David W., Lamb, Michael L., Swank, Raymond M., Webster, Kevin J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kindred, Alford W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mercado, Ramon A
• Application Number:
  US13/049,758
• Publication Number:
  US 20110167213A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,028 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 711/112
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0605 by facilitating the interaction with a user or administrator
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0617 in relation to availability
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0631 by allocating resources to storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0632 by initialisation or re-initialisation of 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: Y10S 707/99938 Concurrency, e.g. lock management in shared database

Abstract

Provided are a method, system, and program for creating at least one volume in a disk storage system. A request is received to create at least one volume on the disk storage system indicating a volume size and number of volumes to create. Selection is made of a storage pool object representing one of a plurality of storage pools having available storage space to create the requested number of volumes. retrieving a storage configuration service of the disk storage system using an association of a disk storage system object representing the disk storage system and the selected storage pool object. The disk storage system object representing the disk storage system is associated with the retrieved storage configuration service. A volume size of the volume to create is set to a calculated size. The storage pool is set as the selected storage pool object. A method is invoked through the retrieved storage configuration service for each volume in the requested number of volumes to create.

Claims

1. A machine readable storage device embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to create at least one volume in a disk storage system, wherein the instructions are executed to perform operations, the operations comprising:

receiving a request to create at least one volume on the disk storage system indicating a volume size and number of the at least one volume to create, wherein volumes represent storage entities;

selecting a storage pool object representing one of a plurality of storage pools having available storage space from which to create the requested number of at least one volume, wherein the storage pools have available storage space to assign to create volumes;

retrieving a storage configuration service of the disk storage system using an association of a disk storage system object representing the disk storage system and the selected storage pool object;

associating the disk storage system object representing the disk storage system with the retrieved storage configuration service;

setting a volume size of the at least one volume to create to a calculated size;

setting the storage pool as the selected storage pool object; and

invoking a method through the retrieved storage configuration service for each volume in the requested number of at least one volume to create.

2. The machine readable storage device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise calculating the volume size based on a constraint of the disk storage system.

3. The machine readable storage device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise returning a list of the created at least one volume.

4. The machine readable storage device of claim 3, wherein the operations further comprise assigning the at least one volume on the list of volumes to a requesting host.

5. The machine readable storage device of claim 1, wherein the receiving operation further comprises receiving a list of storage pools.

6. The machine readable storage device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining if an error has occurred;

recording the error in response to determining that the error occurred;

selecting an additional storage pool object identifying one storage pool with available space to create the at least one volume in response to determining that an additional storage pool object identifying a storage spool with available space is available;

repeating the operations of retrieving, associating, setting the storage pool, and the invoking operations using the selected additional storage pool object as the selected storage pool object.

7. The machine readable storage device of claim 1, wherein the request is made by a Common Information Model (CIM) application in response to a host request for additional storage and wherein the request is received by a CIM Object Manager (CIMOM) server, wherein the CIMOM server performs the operations of retrieving the storage configuration service, associating the disk storage system object, setting the volume size, setting the storage pool, and invoking the method.

8. A computing system in communication with a disk storage system, comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device coupled to the memory, wherein the processing device is programmed to perform operations for creating at least one volume in the disk storage system, the operations comprising;

receiving a request to create at least one volume on the disk storage system, wherein the request specifies a volume size and a requested number of the at least one volume, wherein volumes represent storage entities;

selecting a storage pool object representing one of a plurality of storage pools having available storage space from which to create the requested number of at least one volume, wherein the storage pools have available storage space to assign to create volumes;

retrieving a storage configuration service of the disk storage system using an association of a disk storage system object representing the disk storage system and the selected storage pool object;

associating the disk storage system object representing the disk storage system with the retrieved storage configuration service;

setting a volume size of the at least one volume to create to a calculated size;

setting the storage pool as the selected storage pool object; and

invoking a method through the retrieved storage configuration service for each volume in the requested number of at least one volume to create.

9. The computing system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise calculating the volume size based on a constraint of the disk storage system.

10. The computing system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise returning a list of the created at least one volume.

11. The computing system of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise assigning the volumes on the list of volumes to a requesting host.

12. The computing system of claim 8, wherein the receiving operation further comprises receiving a list of storage pools.

13. The computing system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining if an error has occurred;

recording the error in response to determining that the error occurred;

selecting an additional storage pool object identifying one storage pool with available space to create the at least one volume in response to determining that an additional storage pool object identifying a storage spool with available space is available;

repeating the operations of retrieving, associating, setting the storage pool, and the invoking operations using the selected additional storage pool object as the selected storage pool object.

14. The computing system of claim 8, wherein the request is made by a Common Information Model (CIM) application in response to a host request for additional storage and wherein the request is received by a CIM Object Manager (CIMOM) server, wherein the CIMOM server performs the operations of retrieving the storage configuration service, associating the disk storage system object, setting the volume size, setting the storage pool, and invoking the method.

15. A method for creating at least one volume in a disk storage system, comprising:

receiving a request to create at least one volume on the disk storage system indicating a volume size and number of the at least one volume to create, wherein volumes represent storage entities;

selecting a storage pool object representing one of a plurality of storage pools having available storage space from which to create the requested number of at least one volume, wherein the storage pools have available storage space to assign to create volumes;

retrieving a storage configuration service of the disk storage system using an association of a disk storage system object representing the disk storage system and the selected storage pool object;

associating the disk storage system object representing the disk storage system with the retrieved storage configuration service;

setting a volume size of the at least one volume to create to a calculated size;

setting the storage pool as the selected storage pool object; and

invoking a method through the retrieved storage configuration service for each volume in the requested number of at least one volume to create.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

calculating the volume size based on a constraint of the disk storage system.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

returning a list of the created at least one volume.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

assigning the at least one volume on the list of volumes to a requesting host.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the receiving operation further comprises receiving a list of storage pools.

20. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

determining if an error has occurred;

recording the error in response to determining that the error occurred;

selecting an additional storage pool object identifying one storage pool with available space to create the at least one volume in response to determining that an additional storage pool object identifying a storage spool with available space is available;

repeating the operations of retrieving, associating, setting the storage pool, and the invoking operations using the selected additional storage pool object as the selected storage pool object.

21. The method of claim 15, wherein the request is made by a Common Information Model (CIM) application in response to a host request for additional storage and wherein the request is received by a CIM Object Manager (CIMOM) server, wherein the CIMOM server performs the operations of retrieving the storage configuration service, associating the disk storage system object, setting the volume size, setting the storage pool, and invoking the method.