Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Charles D O'Toole

John Wilkes

Julie Ward Drew

Douglas L Hagerman

Simge Kucukyavuz

Peter J Yakutis

Bruce Filgate

Douglas Wallace Sharp

Link used variables are defined for links related to an interconnection fabric. The links used variables are representative of whether or not a link is used for handling flows between a plurality of hosts and devices. Constraints for links, and hop counts or port counts are also defined. An objective function is used by an integer programming solver to determine connections as a function of the definitions.

Interconnection fabric connection

A method, for determining sufficiency of a given set of portions included within a storage system (SS) to accommodate one or more flows of data anticipated as flowing therethrough, may include: configuring the given set to include at least one of following portions, a given stable of one or more providers of data-storage (PDSs), and an SS-infrastructure; identifying components within members of the given set as queuing centers according to the one or more flows, respectively; estimating one or more capacity values, based upon the one or more flows, that will be demanded of the components, respectively; and determining whether the estimated one or more capacity values are acceptable in a context of corresponding capacity values attributed to the components, respectively.

Storage-system-portion sufficiency determination

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Northborough, MA, United States of America

Charles D O'Toole