Use minimal variance to distribute disk slices to avoid over-commitment
US10592297B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 12, 2017 |
| Grant date | Mar 17, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 31, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2209/502
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An example method for balancing disk usages in a virtualized computing environment may include generating, by a storage manager configured to manage the virtualized computing environment, predicted-disk-utilizations for a plurality of physical disks provisioned to a virtual disk in the virtualized computing environment. In response to a determination that a first predicted-disk-utilization for a first physical disk selected from the plurality of physical disks exceeds a predetermined-utilization-threshold, the storage manager may generate a storage-balancing policy for splitting the virtual disk into a number of disk slices and distributing the number of disk slices to a subset of candidate physical disks selected from the plurality of physical disks, wherein the storage-balancing policy provides a minimum data-movement-variance for distributing of the number of disk slices to the subset of the candidate physical disks.
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