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System, and control method and program for input/output requests for storage systems

US10229021B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 9, 2018
Grant dateMar 12, 2019
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Expiry dateMar 9, 2038

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F11/2094
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Virtual first logical volumes are provided to a host, a virtual second logical volume correlated with any one of the first logical volumes is created in a storage node in correlation with a storage control module disposed in the storage node, a correspondence relationship between the first and second logical volumes is managed as mapping information, a storage node which is an assigning distribution of an I/O request is specified on the basis of the mapping information in a case where the I/O request in which the first logical volume is designated as an I/O destination is given from the host, the I/O request is assigned to the storage control module of its own node in a case where the specified storage node is its own node, and the I/O request is assigned to another storage node in a case where the specified storage node is another storage node.

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