Patent ID: 9141305
Filing Date: 2015-09-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of analyzing storage resources comprising: provisioning a set of one or more storage resources for storing data of a first application, wherein said provisioning includes: monitoring I/O operations received at a data storage system from the first application, said I/O operations being directed to the set of one or more storage resources; collecting, in accordance with said monitoring, first information characterizing the I/O operations from the first application; determining, using the first information, a first execution profile for the first application characterizing I/O operations of the first application; determining whether the first execution profile of the first application matches any of a set of one or more predetermined execution profiles of the application profile set for one or more known applications, each of said one or more predetermined execution profiles characterizing I/O operations of one of the known applications; and performing first processing in accordance with one or more criteria, said one or more criteria including whether the first execution profile matches any of the set of one or more predetermined execution profiles.