Physical hardware controller for provisioning dynamic storage services on processing devices

A computer program product comprising a non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having stored therein program code of one or more software programs, wherein the program code when executed by a first processing device comprising a physical hardware controller causes the first processing device to perform steps of:

• identifying two or more remote storage service instances attached to a second processing device that the physical hardware controller is coupled to;
• initiating, at the first processing device, one or more storage emulation modules for the two or more remote storage service instances attached to the second processing device, the one or more storage emulation modules emulating one or more physical storage devices configured for attachment to the second processing device;
• and
• provisioning the two or more remote storage service instances to the second processing device by utilizing hardware resources of the physical hardware controller (i) to dynamically select at least one of the two or more remote storage service instances to utilize for processing of one or more input/output requests that are directed to one or more storage volumes of the emulated one or more physical storage devices and (ii) to provide results of processing the one or more input/output requests by the selected at least one of the two or more remote storage service instances to the second processing device via the emulated one or more physical storage devices.

A method comprising:

• identifying, at a first processing device comprising a physical hardware controller coupled to a second processing device, two or more remote storage service instances attached to the second processing device;
• initiating, at the first processing device, one or more storage emulation modules for the two or more remote storage service instances attached to the second processing device, the one or more storage emulation modules emulating one or more physical storage devices configured for attachment to the second processing device;
• and
• provisioning the two or more remote storage service instances to the second processing device by utilizing hardware resources of the physical hardware controller (i) to dynamically select at least one of the two or more remote storage service instances to utilize for processing of one or more input/output requests that are directed to one or more storage volumes of the emulated one or more physical storage devices and (ii) to provide results of processing the one or more input/output requests by the selected at least one of the two or more remote storage service instances to the second processing device via the emulated one or more physical storage devices;
• wherein the method is performed by the first processing device.