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US 12,210,778 · App. 17/931,418 · Granted Jan 28, 2025

Sizing a virtual storage system

Inventors: Yuval Frandzel (Foster City, CA); Naveen Neelakantam (Mountain View, CA)
Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
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Patent No.
US 12,210,778
App. No.
17/931,418
Filed
Sep 12, 2022
Granted
Jan 28, 2025
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2181
USPC
711/154
Abstract

Sizing a virtual storage system, including: determining a change to one or more resource demands; determining, based on the change to the one or more resource demands, one or more modifications to one or more virtual components included as part of a virtual storage system architecture of a virtual storage system within a cloud computing environment; and initiating, responsive to the change to the one or more resource demands, the one or more modifications to the one or more virtual components included as part of the virtual storage system architecture of the virtual storage system, including replacing one or more of the virtual components with a higher performance virtual component.

Claims (49)

1. A method comprising:

determining a change to one or more resource demands on a virtual storage system architecture of a virtual storage system within a cloud computing environment, wherein the virtual storage system includes one or more virtual storage components;

determining, based on the change to the one or more resource demands, one or more modifications to the one or more virtual storage components; and

initiating, by a processor, the one or more modifications to the one or more virtual storage components, including replacing at least one of the one or more virtual storage components with a higher performance virtual storage component by provisioning a higher performance virtual storage device to replace the at least one of the one or more virtual storage components.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

orchestrating the virtual storage system at a local computer system, wherein the cloud computing environment is implemented within a remote site of a cloud services provider.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the local computer system provides a virtual computing environment.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the local computer system is a physical storage system.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the change to the one or more resource demands is a decrease in demand for at least one of storage resources or computing resources.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein, based on the decrease in demand, the one or more modifications include one or more of:

suspending some of the one or more virtual storage components of the virtual storage system,

suspending all of the one or more virtual storage components of the virtual storage system, or

decommissioning at least one of the one or more virtual storage components of the virtual storage system, or

replacing at least one of the one or more virtual storage components of the virtual storage system with a lower performance virtual storage component.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the change to the one or more resource demands is an increase in demand for at least one of storage resources or computing resources.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein, based on the increase in demand, the one or more modifications includes one or more of:

resuming some of the one or more virtual storage components of the virtual storage system,

resuming all of the one or more virtual storage components of the virtual storage system,

commissioning at least one of the one or more virtual storage components of the virtual storage system, or

replacing at least one of the one or more virtual storage components of the virtual storage system with a higher performance virtual storage component.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more modifications to the one or more virtual storage components included as part of the virtual storage system architecture include a modification to one or more architectural elements of the virtual storage system, and wherein the modification to the one or more architectural elements comprises adding or removing a tier of storage or adding or removing one or more storage controllers.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more modifications to the one or more virtual storage components included as part of the virtual storage system architecture comprises changing from using a first type of storage class to using a second type of storage class.

11. An apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, configured to:

determine a change to one or more resource demands on a virtual storage system architecture of a virtual storage system within a cloud computing environment, wherein the virtual storage system includes one or more virtual storage components;

determine, based on the change to the one or more resource demands, one or more modifications to the one or more virtual storage components; and

initiate the one or more modifications to the one or more virtual storage components, including replacing at least one of the one or more virtual storage components with a higher performance virtual storage component by provisioning a higher performance virtual storage device to replace the at least one of the one or more virtual storage components.

12. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

orchestrate the virtual storage system at a local computer system, and wherein the cloud computing environment is implemented within a remote site of a cloud services provider.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the local computer system provides a virtual computing environment.

14. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the local computer system is a physical storage system.

15. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the change to the one or more resource demands is a decrease in demand for at least one of storage resources or computing resources.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 , wherein, based on the decrease in demand, the one or more modifications include one or more of:

suspending some of the one or more virtual storage components of the virtual storage system,

suspending all of the one or more virtual storage components of the virtual storage system,

decommissioning at least one of the one or more virtual storage components of the virtual storage system, or

replacing at least one of the one or more virtual storage components of the virtual storage system with a lower performance virtual storage component.

17. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the change to the one or more resource demands is an increase in demand for at least one of storage resources or computing resources.

18. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein, based on the increase in demand, the one or more modifications includes one or more of:

resuming some of the one or more virtual storage components of the virtual storage system,

resuming all of the one or more virtual storage components of the virtual storage system,

commissioning at least one of the one or more virtual storage components of the virtual storage system, or

replacing at least one of the one or more virtual storage components of the virtual storage system with a higher performance virtual storage component.

19. The apparatus of claim 11 , wherein the one or more modifications to the one or more virtual storage components included as part of the virtual storage system architecture include a modification to one or more architectural elements of the virtual storage system, and wherein the modification to the one or more architectural elements comprises adding or removing a tier of storage or adding or removing one or more storage controllers.

20. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions which, when executed, cause a processor to:

determine a change to one or more resource demands on a virtual storage system architecture of a virtual storage system within a cloud computing environment, wherein the virtual storage system includes one or more virtual storage components;

determine, based on the change to the one or more resource demands, one or more modifications to the one or more virtual storage components; and

initiate the one or more modifications to the one or more virtual storage components, including replacing at least one of the one or more virtual storage components with a higher performance virtual storage component by provisioning a higher performance virtual storage device to replace the at least one of the one or more virtual storage components.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 12, 2022
From: FRANDZEL, YUVAL; NEELAKANTAM, NAVEEN
To: PURE STORAGE, INC.
Reel/Frame 061064/0929 →
Continuity (8)
Continuation 16842427 · Apr 7, 2020
Continuation In Part 16353775 · Mar 14, 2019
Provisional Application 62838738 · Apr 25, 2019
Provisional Application 62769277 · Nov 19, 2018
Provisional Application 62768952 · Nov 18, 2018
Provisional Application 62692602 · Jun 29, 2018
Provisional Application 62643641 · Mar 15, 2018
Related Publication 20230004330A1 · Jan 5, 2023
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