Providing storage tailored for a storage consuming application

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12061929-B2
Application number	US-202217888015-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 15, 2022
Priority date	Jul 20, 2018
Publication date	Aug 13, 2024
Grant date	Aug 13, 2024

Abstract

Providing storage tailored for a storage consuming application, including: identifying, for an application that utilizes storage resources within a cloud-based storage system, one or more storage performance characteristics associated with the application; comparing the storage performance characteristics of the application that were identified with storage performance characteristics of storage resources of one or more cloud-based storage systems; and selecting, based on the comparing, one or more storage resources within the one or more cloud-based storage systems to provide storage services to the application.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
identifying, for an application that utilizes storage resources within a cloud-based storage system, one or more storage performance characteristics associated with the application inferred based on application execution over time;
identifying, in dependence upon a predicted change to the application, one or more updated storage performance characteristics associated with the application, by utilizing trending information associated with a set of applications that includes the application;
comparing the updated storage performance characteristics of the application that were identified with storage performance characteristics of storage resources of one or more cloud-based storage systems; and
selecting, based on the comparing, one or more storage resources within the one or more cloud-based storage systems to provide storage services to the application.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein selecting, in dependence upon the one or more storage performance characteristics associated with the application and storage performance characteristics of storage resources within one or more cloud-based storage systems, one or more storage resources within the one or more cloud-based storage systems to support the execution of the application further comprises selecting, from available storage resources that could be included in a cloud-based storage system, a subset of storage resources that can be provided by a cloud computing environment for inclusion within the cloud-based storage system that is to be created to support the execution of the application.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein selecting, in dependence upon the one or more storage performance characteristics associated with the application and storage performance characteristics of storage resources within one or more cloud-based storage systems, one or more storage resources within the one or more cloud-based storage systems to support the execution of the application further comprises selecting, from amongst a plurality of cloud-based storage systems that are supported by a cloud computing environment, a particular cloud-based storage system to support the execution of the application.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein selecting, in dependence upon the one or more storage performance characteristics associated with the application and storage performance characteristics of storage resources within one or more cloud-based storage systems, one or more storage resources within the one or more cloud-based storage systems to support the execution of the application further comprises selecting, from amongst a plurality of storage system virtual controller compute instances, a particular set of one or more storage system virtual controller compute instances to service I/O operations generated by the application.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
identifying, in dependence upon a predicted change to the application, one or more updated storage performance characteristics associated with the application, wherein the predicted change comprises a predicted increase in required processing storage resources to support the application; and
selecting, in dependence upon the one or more updated storage performance characteristics associated with the application and storage performance characteristics of one or more storage resources within one or more of the cloud-based storage systems, an updated set of storage resources within the one or more cloud-based storage systems to support the execution of the application.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
identifying, in dependence upon a detected change to the application, one or more updated storage performance characteristics associated with the application; and
selecting, in dependence upon the one or more updated storage performance characteristics associated with the application and storage performance characteristics of one or more storage resources within one or more of the cloud-based storage systems, an updated set of storage resources within the one or more cloud-based storage systems to support the execution of the application.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the application utilizes the updated set of storage resources within the one or more cloud-based storage systems without migrating any portion of a dataset that is stored as objects within object storage resources in the cloud-based storage system.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein selecting an updated set of storage resources within the one or more cloud-based storage systems to support the execution of the application further comprises modifying storage resources within the one or more cloud-based storage systems.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein modifying storage resources within the one or more cloud-based storage systems further comprises modifying a virtual drive layer in at least one of the cloud-based storage systems.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein modifying storage resources within the one or more cloud-based storage systems further comprises modifying a storage controller layer in at least one of the cloud-based storage systems.

11. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
receiving, via a storage tuning interface, tuning information for a cloud-based storage system that is utilized by the application; and
wherein modifying storage resources within the one or more cloud-based storage systems is carried out in response to receiving the tuning information.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
detecting a change to one or more of the cloud-based storage systems;
identifying, in dependence upon the detected change to one or more of the cloud-based storage systems, one or more updated storage performance characteristics associated with the one or more cloud-based storage systems; and
selecting, in dependence upon the storage performance characteristics associated with the application and the updated storage performance characteristics associated with the one or more cloud-based storage systems, an updated set of storage resources within the one or more cloud-based storage systems to support the execution of the application.

13. The method of claim 1 further comprising:
identifying, in dependence upon a predicted change to the application, one or more updated storage performance characteristics associated with the application, by utilizing trending information associated with the application and trending information based on telemetry data associated with similar applications.

14. A method comprising:
identifying, for an application that utilizes storage resources within a cloud-based storage system, one or more storage performance characteristics associated with the application inferred based on application execution over time;
identifying, in dependence upon a predicted change to the application, one or more updated storage performance characteristics associated with the application, by utilizing trending information associated with a set of applications that includes the application;
comparing the updated storage performance characteristics of the application that were identified with storage performance characteristics of storage resources of one or more cloud-based storage systems; and
selecting, based on the comparing, one or more storage resources within the one or more cloud-based storage systems to provide storage services to the application.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein:
for each application of a plurality of applications supported by the storage system, the storage resources within the storage system that support the execution of the application are

Assignees

• Pure Storage Inc

Inventors

• Barker Jr Robert
• Darji Prakash
• Giancarlo Charles
• Karr Ronald
• Kenney Chadd

Classifications

• G06F11/1629

  Error detection by comparing the output of redundant processing systems · CPC title

• G06F3/0664

  at device level, e.g. emulation of a storage device or system · CPC title

• G05B23/0259

  characterized by the response to fault detection · CPC title

• G06F16/00

  Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor · CPC title

• G06F9/50

  Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU] · CPC title