US 11,768,635 B2
Scaling storage resources in a storage volume
Taher Vohra, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Par Botes, Atherton, CA (US); Naveen Neelakantam, Mountain View, CA (US); and Ivan Jibaja, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to PURE STORAGE, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by PURE STORAGE, INC., Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/728,886.
Application 17/728,886 is a continuation of application No. 16/526,333, filed on Jul. 30, 2019, granted, now 11,340,837.
Application 16/526,333 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/373,733, filed on Apr. 3, 2019, granted, now 11,023,179, issued on Jun. 1, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/769,277, filed on Nov. 19, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/768,952, filed on Nov. 18, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0253255 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0665 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0605 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0632 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
monitoring a usage of a volume in a storage pool that includes one or more cloud-based storage systems;
determining that the usage of the volume exceeds a threshold usage; and
based on the determination, expanding the resources that are included in the storage pool for servicing the volume, including:
instantiating one or more new virtual drives that are included in the one or more cloud-based storage systems; and
adding the one or more new virtual drives to the storage pool.