US 2021/0342137 A1 · POLICY-BASED AUTOMATED GENERATION OF SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE DEPLOYMENTS

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for policy-based automated generation of software-defined storage deployments are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining, from a user, a software-defined storage deployment request comprising request attributes; determining a software-defined storage deployment policy applicable to the request by processing the request attributes in connection with a set of software-defined storage deployment policies; executing, in a given order, multiple rules contained within the determined software-defined storage deployment policy, wherein executing each of the multiple rules comprises modifying at least a portion of a list of storage resources associated with the user by performing one or more actions as prescribed by the rule in conjunction the request attributes; generating a software-defined storage deployment plan based on the execution of the multiple rules; and performing at least one automated action based on the generated software-defined storage deployment plan.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method comprising:

obtaining, from at least one user, a software-defined storage deployment request comprising one or more request attributes;
determining a software-defined storage deployment policy applicable to the request by processing at least a portion of the one or more request attributes in connection with a set of software-defined storage deployment policies, wherein determining the software-defined storage deployment policy comprises looking-up the software-defined storage deployment policy using a map structure of software-defined storage deployment policy names to an executable code structure that contains an implementation for executing the software-defined storage deployment policy;
executing, in a given order, multiple rules contained within the determined software-defined storage deployment policy, wherein executing each of the multiple rules comprises modifying at least a portion of a list of storage resources associated with the at least one user by performing one or more actions as prescribed by the rule in conjunction at least a portion of the one or more request attributes;
generating a software-defined storage deployment plan based at least in part on the execution of the multiple rules;
and
performing at least one automated action based at least in part on the generated software-defined storage deployment plan;
wherein the method is performed by at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory.

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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 at least one processing device causes the at least one processing device:

to obtain, from at least one user, a software-defined storage deployment request comprising one or more request attributes;
to determine a software-defined storage deployment policy applicable to the request by processing at least a portion of the one or more request attributes in connection with a set of software-defined storage deployment policies, wherein determining the software-defined storage deployment policy comprises looking-up the software-defined storage deployment policy using a map structure of software-defined storage deployment policy names to an executable code structure that contains an implementation for executing the software-defined storage deployment policy;
to execute, in a given order, multiple rules contained within the determined software-defined storage deployment policy, wherein executing each of the multiple rules comprises modifying at least a portion of a list of storage resources associated with the at least one user by performing one or more actions as prescribed by the rule in conjunction at least a portion of the one or more request attributes;
to generate a software-defined storage deployment plan based at least in part on the execution of the multiple rules;
and
to perform at least one automated action based at least in part on the generated software-defined storage deployment plan.

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An apparatus comprising:

at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory;
the at least one processing device being configured:
to obtain, from at least one user, a software-defined storage deployment request comprising one or more request attributes;
to determine a software-defined storage deployment policy applicable to the request by processing at least a portion of the one or more request attributes in connection with a set of software-defined storage deployment policies, wherein determining the software-defined storage deployment policy comprises looking-up the software-defined storage deployment policy using a map structure of software-defined storage deployment policy names to an executable code structure that contains an implementation for executing the software-defined storage deployment policy;
to execute, in a given order, multiple rules contained within the determined software-defined storage deployment policy, wherein executing each of the multiple rules comprises modifying at least a portion of a list of storage resources associated with the at least one user by performing one or more actions as prescribed by the rule in conjunction at least a portion of the one or more request attributes;
to generate a software-defined storage deployment plan based at least in part on the execution of the multiple rules;
and
to perform at least one automated action based at least in part on the generated software-defined storage deployment plan.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Policy-based automated generation of software-defined storage deployments

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