Workload-Driven Modification Of Cloud-Based Storage System Configuration
A cloud-based storage system within a cloud computing environment, the cloud-based storage system including: monitoring, for the cloud-based storage system, one or more storage system operations, wherein the cloud-based storage system includes a virtual instance storage layer and a cloud-based storage layer; determining, based at least upon the one or more storage system operations, one or more access patterns for the cloud-based storage system; and modifying, based at least upon the one or more access patterns for the cloud-based storage system, one or more cloud configurations for the cloud-based storage system.
1 . A method comprising:
monitoring, for a cloud-based storage system, one or more internal operations performed by the cloud-based storage system that are different from processing storage I/O requests; and
modifying, based on monitoring of the one or more internal operations, a configuration of one or more storage controllers of the cloud-based storage system.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a virtual drive layer stores data in local storage in one or more cloud computing instances of the cloud-based storage system.
3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the local storage of the one or more cloud computing instances includes one or more solid-state drives.
4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more internal operations of the cloud-based storage system include one or more of operations for deduplicating data, compressing data, encrypting data, and garbage collection.
5 . The method of claim 2 , further comprising modifying performance specifications of one or more cloud computing instances of the cloud-based storage system based on one or more access patterns associated with the storage I/O requests that indicate an increased workload or a decreased workload.
6 . The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
responsive to determining an increased workload, increasing a quantity of cloud computing instances at a virtual drive layer of the cloud-based storage system.
7 . The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
responsive to determining an increased workload, increasing a quantity of one or more cloud computing instances configured as storage controllers.
8 . The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
responsive to determining an increased workload, increasing one or more performance specifications of one or more cloud computing instances in the virtual drive layer.
9 . The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
responsive to determining an increased workload, increasing a quantity of cloud computing instances at the virtual drive layer by an amount sufficient to prevent not satisfying performance requirements for a service level agreement.
10 . The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
responsive to determining a decreased workload, decreasing a quantity of cloud computing instances at the virtual drive layer.
11 . The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
responsive to determining a decreased workload, decreasing a quantity of one or more cloud computing instances configured as storage controllers.
12 . The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
responsive to determining a decreased workload, decreasing one or more performance specifications of one or more cloud computing instances in the virtual drive layer.
13 . The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
responsive to determining a decreased workload, decreasing a quantity of one or more cloud computing instances at the virtual drive layer to continue satisfying performance requirements of a service level agreement within a threshold amount.
14 . A cloud-based storage system within a cloud computing environment, the cloud-based storage system including:
one or more computing devices comprising at least one processor and memory, and further comprising:
one or more storage controller applications;
a virtual drive layer including one or more cloud computing instances with each cloud computing instance having local storage;
a cloud-based storage layer including cloud-based object storage; and
a dynamic cloud configuration module stored in memory and executed on a cloud computing instance, configured to:
monitor, for the cloud-based storage system, one or more internal operations performed by the cloud-based storage system that are different from processing storage I/O requests; and
modify, based on monitoring of the one or more internal operations, a configuration of one or more storage controllers of the cloud-based storage system.
15 . The cloud-based storage system of claim 14 , wherein local storage of the one or more cloud computing instances includes one or more solid-state drives.
16 . The cloud-based storage system of claim 14 , wherein a virtual drive layer of the cloud-based storage system includes consistent data storage and the cloud-based storage layer includes eventually consistent data storage.
17 . The cloud-based storage system of claim 14 , wherein the one or more storage controllers receive the one or more storage I/O requests.
18 . The cloud-based storage system of claim 14 , further comprising modifying performance specifications of one or more cloud computing instances of the cloud-based storage system based on one or more access patterns associated with the storage I/O requests that indicate an increased workload or a decreased workload.
19 . The cloud-based storage system of claim 18 , wherein dynamic cloud configuration module is further configured to:
responsive to determining an increased workload, perform one or more of:
increase a quantity of cloud computing instances and local storage at the virtual drive layer;
increase a quantity of one or more cloud computing instances configured as storage controllers;
increase one or more performance specifications of one or more cloud computing instances in the virtual drive layer; or
increase a quantity of cloud computing instances at the virtual drive layer by an amount sufficient to prevent not satisfying performance requirements for a service level agreement.
20 . The cloud-based storage system of claim 18 , wherein the dynamic cloud configuration module is further configured to:
responsive to determining a decreased workload, perform one or more of:
decrease a quantity of one or more cloud computing instances at the virtual drive layer;
decrease a quantity of one or more cloud computing instances configured as storage controllers;
decrease one or more performance specifications of one or more cloud computing instances in the virtual drive layer; or
decrease a quantity of one or more cloud computing instances at the virtual drive layer to continue satisfying performance requirements of a service level agreement within a threshold amount.