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Small storage volume management

US9898223B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Dan Cohen · Mountain View, US
Rivka M. Matosevich · Zichron Ya'akov, IL
Ovad Somech · Rishon LeZion, IL
Eran Tzabari · Nes Ziona, IL

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 28, 2016
Grant date	Feb 20, 2018
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 28, 2036

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2201/84
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An aggregation volume includes a plurality of sub-volumes. Advanced storage functions or operations are carried out at the aggregation volume granularity and therefore are carried out on all sub-volumes allocated in a single aggregation volume at the same time. Such organization results in a de facto consistency group for all sub-volumes associated with a single aggregation volume. To create a sub-volume the aggregation volume is logically divided into pre-defined size chunks. Each chuck can subsequently be allocated to the sub-volume. When a sub-volume is created it is allocated to a number of chunks according to a requested sub-volume size.

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