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Providing storage resources upon receipt of a storage service request

US9342526B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Christian Bolik · Oldenburg, DE
Michael Fiedler · Munich, DE
Daniel Michel · Saint-Égrève, FR
Dietmar Noll · Salmünster, DE
Christoph Reichert · Mainz, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 27, 2013
Grant date	May 17, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 11, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2209/501
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A mechanism is provided for providing storage resources of a storage management system. A storage service request is received comprising an indication of a service class. A determination is made of all resource managers mapped to the indicated service class according to a first mapping. For each of the determined resource managers: a determination is made of selected ones of all the storage resources controllable by the determined resource manager; monitoring data of the selected storage resources is gathered; the gathered monitoring data is compared for calculating a score for each one of the selected storage resources; and at least one function of the determined resource manager operable to control the storage resource having an optimum score is called.

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