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Method and apparatus for elastic provisioning

  • US 9,158,734 B1
  • Filed: 03/30/2012
  • Issued: 10/13/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • in a cloud storage system having a compute layer, a network layer, a storage layer and a management layer, and a service having at least one server, boot storage for each of the at least one servers, shared storage for the at least one server, and a network profile to define networks over which traffic can flow,adding a compute, network, and storage layer resource to the service, wherein the compute, network, and storage layer resources comprise a server;

    provisioning the added compute, network, and storage layer resources;

    activating the provisioned compute, network, and storage layer resources into the already provisioned service with minimal interruption of the service to elastically add a resource to the service;

    provisioning boot and shared storage for the added server;

    reserving a blade in a blade pool associated with the added server;

    installing an operating system on the reserved blade;

    creating a service profile for the server;

    creating zones for the added server; and

    activating the added server.

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