Proactively providing corrective measures for storage arrays

An apparatus for proactively providing corrective measures for storage arrays, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of:

• detecting, in dependence upon a problem signature, one or more events from data of a storage array that are indicative of a particular problem, wherein the problem signature comprises a specification of a pattern of events indicative of the particular problem experienced by at least one other storage array;
• determining that the particular problem violates an operational policy of the storage array, the operational policy specifying at least one requirement for an operational metric of the storage array;
• and
• deploying one or more corrective measures to prevent the storage array from experiencing the particular problem.

A computer program product for proactively providing corrective measures for storage arrays, the computer program product disposed upon a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions that, when executed, cause a computer to carry out the steps of:

• detecting, in dependence upon a problem signature, one or more events from data of a storage array that are indicative of a particular problem, wherein the problem signature comprises a specification of a pattern of events indicative of the particular problem experienced by at least one other storage array;
• determining that the particular problem violates an operational policy of the storage array, the operational policy specifying at least one requirement for an operational metric of the storage array;
• and
• deploying one or more corrective measures to prevent the storage array from experiencing the particular problem.