Elastic Environment

The Elastic Environment compound pattern represents a collection of patterns that coexist in an environment to provide the dynamic feature-set required to realize the elasticity characteristic of a cloud. It is comprised of the following patterns:

Required (Core)

• Cross-Storage Device Vertical Tiering
• Elastic Disk Provisioning
• Elastic Network Capacity
• Elastic Resource Capacity
• Intra-Storage Device Vertical Data Tiering
• Rapid Provisioning
• Resource Pooling
• Storage Workload Management
• Usage Monitoring
• Workload Distribution

Optional (Extension)

• Direct I/O Access
• Direct LUN Access
• Dynamic Data Normalization
• Leader Node Election
• Micro Scatter-Gather
• Redundant Storage
• Resource Reservation
• Rich Container
• Service Load Balancing
• Volatile Configuration