Global management of tiered storage resources

摘要

Systems, methods, and apparatus for provisioning storage resources for customers from a distributed grid of disparate storage systems are presented herein. A storage tier component can sort, based on attributes of heterogeneous computer-readable storage media, the heterogeneous computer-readable storage media into tiers of storage to facilitate provisioning a portion of storage space of a tier of the tiers for a computing resource. Further, the storage tier component can receive an input from a device for provisioning of the portion of the storage space of the tier, and configure, based on the input, a storage resource to facilitate access between the portion of the storage space of the tier and the computing resource. Furthermore, a tracking component can create an account associated with a customer that is associated with the device to facilitate tracking and/or limiting of utilization of the portion of the storage space of the tier by the customer.

主权项

1. A system, comprising:
at least one memory to store computer-executable instructions; and at least one processor, communicatively coupled to the at least one memory, that facilitates execution of the computer-executable instructions to at least:
organize storage pools of a heterogeneous group of geographically dispersed storage systems based on a geographic location of the storage pools;sort the organized storage pools into storage provisioning tiers based on determined attributes of the organized storage pools;receive, from a client device, a request with a location requirement, a performance requirement, a capacity requirement, and a network protocol requirement for provisioning block storage from the storage provisioning tiers for a computing resource;select, based on the location, performance, capacity, and network protocol requirements, a storage pool of the organized storage pools for the provisioning of the block storage from the storage provisioning tiers for the computing resource;provision the block storage from the storage pool according to the location, performance, capacity, and network protocol requirements; andconfigure a storage system of the geographically dispersed storage systems to assign and allow an access to the block storage from the computing resource.