Patent ID: 11928366
Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
monitoring, for a cloud-based storage system, one or more storage management operations performed by the cloud-based storage system including one or more of data reduction operations, wherein the cloud-based storage system comprises at least one storage controller instance, a virtual drive layer comprising at least one cloud computing instance having local storage, and a cloud-based storage layer having durable cloud based storage, wherein the one or more storage management operations are different from storage I/O operations that include one or more data read operations or data write operations; and
modifying, based at least upon access patterns associated with storage I/O operations and the one or more storage management operations, one or more performance specifications of one or more existing cloud computing instances for the cloud-based storage system including modifying one or more cloud computing instances that are configured as storage controllers.