Storage resource usage analysis for customized application options

A system comprising:

• one or more application servers, wherein one or more applications execute on each of said application servers;
• a data storage system including one or more storage resources used by each of said applications executing on the application servers;
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• a computer readable medium comprising code stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, performs processing including:
• monitoring I/O operations received at the data storage system from a first of the applications, said I/O operations being directed to a set of one or more storage resources;
• collecting, in accordance with said monitoring, first information characterizing the I/O operations from the first application;
• determining, using the first information, a first execution profile for the first application characterizing I/O operations of the first application;
• determining whether the first execution profile of the first application matches any of a set of one or more predetermined execution profiles for one or more known applications, each of said one or more predetermined execution profiles characterizing I/O operations of one of the known applications;
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• performing first processing in accordance with one or more criteria, said one or more criteria including whether the first execution profile matches any of the set of one or more predetermined execution profiles.

A computer readable medium comprising codes stored thereon for analyzing storage resources, the computer readable medium comprising code stored thereon for:

• monitoring I/O operations received at a data storage system from a first application, said I/O operations being directed to a set of one or more storage resources;
• collecting, in accordance with said monitoring, first information characterizing the I/O operations from the first application;
• determining, using the first information, a first execution profile for the first application characterizing I/O operations of the first application;
• determining whether the first execution profile of the first application matches any of a set of one or more predetermined execution profiles for one or more known applications, each of said one or more predetermined execution profiles characterizing I/O operations of one of the known applications;
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• performing first processing in accordance with one or more criteria, said one or more criteria including whether the first execution profile matches any of the set of one or more predetermined execution profiles.