US Patent 10951469 Consumption-based elastic deployment and reconfiguration of hyper-converged software-defined storage

A consumption request, for consuming storage assets, is parsed to determine if it can be matched to an existing deployment of one or more storage assets, to correspond to matching storage assets that satisfy the consumption request. If the consumption request cannot be matched to the existing deployment of one or more storage assets, a determination is made whether the existing deployment of one or more storage assets can be modified to satisfy the consumption request. If the existing deployment of one or more storage assets cannot be modified to satisfy the consumption request, a determination is made to see if other other storage assets can be deployed or reconfigured to satisfy the consumption request. At least one storage asset is modified, deployed, or reconfigured, to satisfy the consumption request.