Patent ID: 9619429
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: allocating a plurality of performance-based storage nodes and a plurality of capacity-based storage nodes of a data storage system in a network environment to one or more tiered resource pools such that, for a given pool of the one or more tiered resource pools, the performance-based storage nodes and the capacity-based storage nodes allocated to the given pool are addressable via a given virtual address assigned to the given pool; and managing access of the performance-based storage nodes and the capacity-based storage nodes in the one or more tiered resource pools by a plurality of compute nodes, wherein access to the performance-based storage nodes and the capacity-based storage nodes is managed transparent to the compute nodes via a given storage policy; wherein at least portions of the compute nodes, the performance-based storage nodes, and the capacity-based storage nodes are operatively coupled via a plurality of network devices; wherein the managing step further comprises at least one of creating and migrating a storage volume in response to a request from one of the plurality of compute nodes; wherein creating the storage volume further comprises: wherein one or more of the allocating and managing steps are automatically performed under control of at least one processing device.