Patent Document ID: 20140324767
Application ID: 14122396
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of provisioning storage resources for a storage system, the method comprising: receiving, from a user, a request to provision storage resources for the storage system, the request including values of a set of provisioning target parameters indicative of provisioning operation requirements; producing, from the values of the set of provisioning target parameters, a set of facts, each fact of the set of facts being configured as input into an expert system that includes a knowledge base and an inference engine, the knowledge base being configured to store a set of logical rules, the inference engine being configured to derive a storage provisioning decision from the set of facts and the knowledge base by firing particular logical rules of the set of logical rules; inputting the set of logical rules and the set of facts into the inference engine to produce the storage resource provisioning decision; and displaying the storage resource provisioning decision to the user.