Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for the automated configuration of storage pools are disclosed. An example method includes determining, as available storage devices, storage devices within a storage system that have availability to be placed into a storage pool and first filtering, based on a first portion of storage requirement information received from a third-party, the available storage devices to eliminate a first set of the available storage devices and determine remaining storage devices. The method also includes second filtering, based on a second portion of the storage requirement information, the remaining storage devices after the first filtering to eliminate a second set of the remaining storage device. The method further includes designating the storage devices remaining after the first and second filtering as identified storage devices and creating the storage pool based on the storage requirement information using at least one of the identified storage devices.

Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for providing multilayered storage are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a virtual storage node and a data services node. The virtual storage node includes a first physical storage device including a first storage pool configured to have a first storage configuration and partitioned into individually addressable logical unit numbers (“LUs”) and a second storage pool configured to have a second storage configuration and partitioned into individually addressable LUs. The data services node includes a service pool configured to have a data services configuration specifying how data is stored to a logical volume from the virtual storage node, the logical volume including at least a first set of LUs from the first storage pool and second of LUs from the second storage pool.