Techniques for translating policies into storage controller requirements
AssigneeCloudByte, Inc.
InventorsFelix Xavier, Umasankar Mukkara, Shyamsundar Ranganathan
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Abstract
Techniques for translating Service Level Agreement (SLA) policy into storage controller requirements within a cloud storage environment are presented. System resource metrics for a storage controller are derived. The SLA policy is defined in terms of SLA parameters. Heuristics are used to translate the SLA parameters into defined percentages of system resources for the storage controller, which are compared to the system resource metrics and adjustments are updates are made as needed.
Claims20
A method implemented in a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium and processed by one or more processors of a machine configured to perform the method, comprising:
- defining, on the machine, a Service Level Agreement (SLA) policy for a tenant in a multi-tenant storage cloud environment in terms of performance parameters;
- acquiring, from the machine, controlling factors that affect resource performance for a storage controller assigned to the tenant;
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- evaluating, from the machine, the controlling factors against heuristics to arrive at resources and resource configurations of the storage controller that meet or exceed the performance parameters.
A method implemented in a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium and processed by one or more processors of a machine configured to perform the method, comprising.
- translating, on the machine, a Service Level Agreement (SLA) policy into specific resources and resource configurations for a storage controller of a tenant in a multi-tenant storage cloud environment;
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- dynamically adjusting, on the machine, the resource configurations to improve performance with respect to the SLA policy.
A system, comprising:
- a cloud storage environment having one or more processors, memory, and storage, the cloud storage environment situated in a cloud environment and accessed over a network;
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- the memory configured with a Service Level Agreement (SLA) policy translator implemented as executable instructions that process on the one or more processors of the cloud storage environment;
- wherein the SLA policy translator is configured to define a SLA policy in terms of performance metrics and then acquire control factors that affect performance of a storage controller for a tenant of the cloud storage environment and configure resources of the storage controller in view of the control factors to achieve the performance metrics of the SLA policy.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.