Patent ID: 9262313
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method implemented by a computing system for provisioning a volume that has multiple tiers corresponding to different trait sets, the method comprising: an act of receiving a provisioning request, the provisioning request identifying storage traits for each of a plurality of different tiers of a volume to be provisioned, the storage traits including one or more mandatory storage traits and one or more optional storage traits; for each of the plurality of tiers that are to be provisioned, an act of identifying from the provisioning request a trait set to be applied to each of the plurality of different tiers, wherein a trait set of a first tier in the plurality of different tiers is at least partially different than a trait set of a second tier in the plurality of different tiers; an act of querying storage traits of an existing storage system; and an act of causing the volume to be provisioned with the plurality of different tiers, using the existing storage system, each tier having the corresponding identified trait set, wherein provisioning the volume further comprises: