Dynamic provisioning of a virtual storage appliance

Abstract

Systems, methods, and apparatus for facilitating dynamic provisioning of a virtual storage appliance in a cloud computing environment are presented herein. A storage system management component can provision storage from a storage medium to facilitate access of at least a portion of the storage by a virtual storage appliance (VSA) based on a request for at least one resource associated with the VSA. Further, a network management component can provision the VSA to facilitate the access of the portion of the storage by the VSA. Furthermore, a storage fabric management component can configure a network to facilitate the access of the portion of the storage by the VSA via the network.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A system, comprising:
 at least one memory storing computer-executable instructions; and   at least one processor, communicatively coupled to the at least one memory, which facilitates execution of the computer-executable instructions to at least:
 provision storage from a storage medium to facilitate access of at least a portion of the storage by a virtual storage appliance (VSA) based on a request for at least one resource associated with the VSA; and 
 provision the VSA to facilitate the access of the portion of the storage by the VSA.