Method and apparatus for highly available storage management using storage providers

Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, a system, and a computer program product for managing a plurality of storage providers to allocate a second storage provider as an active storage provider. The method includes monitoring respective health states of a plurality of storage providers in a storage infrastructure and determining an unhealthy health state of a first storage provider, operating as an active storage provider, among the plurality of storage providers. The method also includes managing the plurality of storage providers to allocate a second storage provider, operating as a standby storage provider, among the plurality of storage providers as the active storage provider.