Determining capacity utilization in a deduplicating storage system
US10866744B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | May 1, 2019 |
| Grant date | Dec 15, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 1, 2039 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F3/0673
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Attributing consumed storage capacity among entities storing data in a storage array includes: identifying a data object stored in the storage array and shared by a plurality of entities, where the data object occupies an amount of storage capacity of the storage array; and attributing to each entity a fractional portion of the amount of storage capacity occupied by the data object.
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