Storage array fleet management

A system comprising:

• a hardware processor;
• and
• a non-transitory storage medium storing fleet storage provider instructions executable on the hardware processor to:
• execute a fleet storage provider that performs storage management operations for a fleet of storage arrays, the storage arrays in the fleet of storage arrays being of one or more storage types, wherein each storage type of the one or more storage types maps to a respective storage class of a plurality of different storage classes;
• in response to an addition, to the fleet of storage arrays, of a new storage array of a first storage type different from each storage type of the one or more storage types:
• identify the new storage array as being associated with a first storage class of the plurality of different storage classes, and
• associate the new storage array with a fleet service that abstracts component details of the fleet of storage arrays to the fleet storage provider;
• and
• receive a request to create a storage volume, the request indicating that the storage volume is to be associated with a storage array of a selected storage class of the plurality of different storage classes;
• provision, in response to the request, the storage volume on a selected storage array of the fleet of storage arrays, the provisioning performed by the fleet storage provider in cooperation with the fleet service;
• and
• automatically enumerate the plurality of different storage classes based on storage types of storage arrays present in the fleet of storage arrays.

A method of a system comprising a hardware processor, the method comprising:

• executing programs in a compute cluster comprising a plurality of compute nodes, the programs to access data of a fleet of storage arrays;
• executing a fleet storage provider in the compute cluster, the fleet storage provider to perform storage management operations for the fleet of storage arrays, the storage arrays in the fleet of storage arrays being of one or more storage types, wherein each storage type of the one or more storage types maps to a respective storage class of a plurality of different storage classes;
• in response to an addition, to the fleet of storage arrays, of a new storage array of a first storage type different from each storage type of the one or more storage types:
• identifying the new storage array as being associated with a first storage class of the plurality of different storage classes, and
• associating the new storage array with a fleet service that abstracts component details of the fleet of storage arrays to the fleet storage provider;
• receiving a request to create a storage volume;
• selecting, from the fleet of storage arrays, a first storage array on which the storage volume is to be provisioned based on:
• receiving input information of characteristics relating to the storage volume,
• determining, based on the input information of the characteristics relating to the storage volume, a workload profile, and
• selecting, based on the workload profile, the first storage array from the fleet of storage arrays;
• provisioning, in response to the request, the storage volume on the selected first storage array of the fleet of storage arrays, the provisioning performed by the fleet storage provider in cooperation with the fleet service.