Patent Document ID: 9635101
Application ID: 14981730

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: determining a first plurality of proposed solutions for a clustered storage system, wherein each of the first plurality of proposed solutions comprises a set of configuration settings of the clustered storage system for the proposed solution and a set of one or more specific actions to execute on the clustered storage system to implement the proposed solution; for each of the first plurality of proposed solutions, determining a first service level objective evaluation value for a first service level objective of a workload of the clustered storage system, wherein determining the first service level objective evaluation value uses a first predicted value for a first service level objective metric of the first service level objective and a first target value of the first service level objective metric; determining a proposed solution evaluation value for the proposed solution based, at least in part, on the first service level objective evaluation value and a first predicted value for a first cost metric corresponding to the proposed solution; selecting a first proposed solution from the first plurality of proposed solutions based, at least in part, on the proposed solution evaluation values computed for the first plurality of proposed solutions; and applying the selected first proposed solution to the clustered storage system.

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Claim 9:
9. The method of claim 1 further comprising ranking the first plurality of proposed solutions based, at least in part, on the first service level objective evaluation values, wherein selecting the first proposed solution is based, at least in part, on the ranking.