Proactive rebalancing of data among storage devices that are part of a virtual disk
US12254208B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 6, 2023 |
| Grant date | Mar 18, 2025 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 6, 2043 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/3034
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to monitor a health status of storage devices that are part of a virtual disk and to identify a first subset of the storage devices that have a first health status and a second subset of the storage devices that have a second health status. The processing device is also configured, responsive to determining that there is sufficient available storage capacity on the second subset of the storage devices to copy data from used storage capacity on the first subset of the storage devices, to resize the virtual disk to a storage capacity determined as a function of storage capacities of the second subset of the storage devices allocated to the virtual disk and to copy data from the used storage capacity on the first subset of the storage devices to the available storage capacity on the second subset of the storage devices.
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