Method and apparatus for elastic provisioning

摘要

Methods and apparatus for a cloud storage system to add a first one of a compute, network, and/or storage layer resource to the service, provision the added first one of the compute, network, and/or storage layer resources, and activate the provisioned first one of the compute, network, and/or storage layer resources into the already provisioned service with minimal interruption of the service to elastically add a resource to the service.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
in a cloud storage system having a compute layer, a network layer, a storage layer and a management layer, and a service having at least one server, boot storage for each of the at least one servers, shared storage for the at least one server, and a network profile to define networks over which traffic can flow, adding a compute, network, and storage layer resource to the service, wherein the compute, network, and storage layer resources comprise a server; provisioning the added compute, network, and storage layer resources; activating the provisioned compute, network, and storage layer resources into the already provisioned service with minimal interruption of the service to elastically add a resource to the service; provisioning boot and shared storage for the added server; reserving a blade in a blade pool associated with the added server; installing an operating system on the reserved blade; creating a service profile for the server; creating zones for the added server; and activating the added server.