Policy driven storage hardware allocation
US10425352B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 9, 2015 |
| Grant date | Sep 24, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 18, 2036 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L47/822
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Methods, computing systems and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include assigning multiple storage resources to a reserve pool, and defining one or more storage policy parameters that include allocation policies and deallocation policy parameters. A software defined storage (SDS) controller is initialized by allocating, from the reserve pool, one or more of the storage resources to the SDS controller, and a current state of the SDS controller is monitored. In a first embodiment, upon detecting that the state of the SDS controller meets a given allocation policy parameter, an additional storage resource from the reserve pool is allocated from the reserve pool to the SDS controller. In a second embodiment, upon detecting that the state of the SDS controller meets a given deallocation policy parameter, a given the SDS controller is deallocated from the SDS controller and released back to the storage pool.
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