×

Methods and apparatus for shared service provisioning

  • US 9,569,139 B1
  • Filed: 09/26/2013
  • Issued: 02/14/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
First Claim
Patent Images

1. A method, comprising:

  • receiving a user request via a service offering for a shared storage service in a cloud infrastructure environment having a compute layer, a network layer, a storage layer, and management layer;

    creating a storage-only shared storage service having a first storage volume, wherein the first storage volume has a storage tiering policy, a tier, a storage type and a storage pool identifier, and wherein the storage tiering policy includes an availability indicator;

    attaching the shared storage service to existing first and second services, wherein the first and second services each include network, compute and storage resources;

    sending commands to the network, compute and storage resources to expose the storage volume to hosts in the environment; and

    adopting the storage-only shared service into the management layer by;

    selecting hosts from which the storage-only shared service may be derived;

    collecting unique identifiers for the selected hosts;

    discovering block storage volumes;

    discovering SAN paths for the block storage volumes and NFS storage paths; and

    collecting exposed ones of the block storage volumes for the selected hosts.

View all claims
  • 9 Assignments
Timeline View
Assignment View
    ×
    ×