Patent ID: 8166257

Claim:
A method comprising: automatically mapping, by a server including a processor, a data management profile of a data set to a plurality of storage provisioning policies, the data management profile comprising a plurality of data management policies, the data management profile managed by a data administrator and the plurality of storage provisioning policies created by a storage administrator, the data administrator and the storage administrator operating independently of each other, the data management profile comprising a plurality of nodes, the mapping comprising identifying a physical resource in the plurality of storage provisioning policies that is associated with a node in one of the plurality of data management policies, each storage provisioning policy comprising a set of physical resource attributes required by the data set, wherein the set of attributes comprises data affinity, wherein the data affinity defines a utility of data as a function of a level of consolidation of the data; automatically monitoring, by the server, a storage system to detect nonconformance of the storage system with the plurality of storage provisioning policies; and automatically re-provisioning, by the server, the data set on the storage system to conform the storage system to the plurality of storage provisioning policies when nonconformance with the plurality of storage provisioning policies is detected.