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Controlling the placement of data in a storage system

US8930667B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Gabriel Alatorre · Long Beach, US
Christian Bolik · Oldenburg, DE
Dietmar Noll · Salmünster, DE
Laura Richardson · Ridge Manor, US
Aameek Singh · University Place, US
Sudhir V.R. Koka · San Jose, US

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 12, 2012
Grant date	Jan 6, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 26, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F16/14
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method, computer readable storage medium and computer system for controlling the allocation of data to one of a plurality of storage units of a storage system, the method comprising: accessing a source storage unit comprising the data; gathering file system level (FS-level) metadata from the source storage unit; analyzing the gathered FS-level metadata for determining if the data should be moved to one of the other storage units, said other storage unit acting as a destination storage unit; and in case the data should be moved, displaying an indication of the destination storage unit and/or automatically moving the data to the determined destination storage unit.

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