1. A computer program product for requesting storage performance information from a service provider for storage resources at a client computing environment, wherein the computer program product comprises a computer readable storage medium having program code that when executed causes operations to be performed, the operations comprising: determining a new configuration pattern of storage resources to deploy in the client configuration environment; sending a request to the service provider with information on the new configuration pattern; receiving from the service provider a result set having at least one provided configuration pattern having a degree of similarity to the new configuration pattern and a storage performance model for each of the provided configuration patterns, wherein each of the storage performance models indicate workload and performance characteristics for one of the provided configuration patterns; selecting a selected configuration pattern from one of the provided configuration patterns from the result set; and using the storage performance model for the selected configuration pattern to model performance at the client computing environment of the new configuration pattern of storage resources.