Patent ID: 9275123
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus comprising: a scan module generating a source storage server description for each source storage server of a source storage system from a scan of the source storage system, each source storage server description comprising a replication type and a source volume record for each source logical volume of the source storage server; and a provision module determining a number of replicated instances of each source logical volume for a target storage system from the replication type, determining a target storage requirement from the replication type and the number of replicated instances of each source logical volume, determining a number of target storage servers from the target storage requirement and a target storage system description for a target storage system, and generating a target storage server description for each target storage server of the target storage system from each corresponding source storage server description in response to the target storage system satisfying the target storage requirement, wherein the target storage system satisfies the target storage requirement if storage devices of the target storage system are device code level compatible with a minimum code level of each source volume record and at least a portion of the scan module and the provision module comprise one or more of hardware and executable code, the executable code stored on one or more computer readable storage media.