Allocation and balancing of storage resources
US8788658B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 3, 2012 |
| Grant date | Jul 22, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 3, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/10
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system and technique for allocating and balancing storage resources includes: a plurality of storage controllers each controlling one or more storage volumes, and a processor unit operable to execute a management application to: determine, for each controller, an input/output (I/O) latency value based on an I/O latency associated with each storage volume controlled by a respective controller; determine network bandwidth utilization and network latency values corresponding to each controller; responsive to a request to allocate a new storage volume, select a controller having a desired I/O latency value; determine whether the network bandwidth utilization and network latency values for the selected controller are below respective network bandwidth utilization and network latency value thresholds; and responsive to determining that the network bandwidth utilization and network latency values for the selected controller are below respective thresholds, allocate the new storage volume to the selected controller.
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