Patent ID: 8793308
Filing Date: 2014-07-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An architecture for a storage management system, comprising: a data center that is operable to communicatively connect to a remote client computing device via a network, wherein the data center comprises a storage management system comprising: one or more resources for virtualization, wherein the resources are characterized and partitioned according to a tier system and wherein elements of the virtual image are stored in and hosted from different tiers; wherein the storage management system is operable to allocate elements of the virtual image across one or more of the non-transitory block-based storage medium, the non-transitory file-based storage medium, and the non-transitory object-based storage medium, wherein the allocation depends on a characterization of the elements performed by the storage management system; and a client policy server filter, wherein the client policy server filter comprises instructions stored on a computer readable medium that, when executed by a processing unit, provide, on a display device, a view of the allocation of elements of the virtual image, and wherein the client policy server filter provides a view on a display of the allocation of elements of the client virtual image.