Emc IP Holding Company LLC

Chris Zirui Liu

Colin Yong Zou

Man Lv

Zhengli Yi

Alan Zhongjie Wu

Fei Wang

Joel Vance Miller

James Fei Wu

A method, system, and computer program product for accelerating data reconstruction for a disk array, the disk array comprising a plurality of physical disks, the method, system, and computer program product including virtualizing the plurality of physical disks as a plurality of virtual disks, applying a data protection algorithm to the plurality of virtual disks to obtain redundant information on data to be stored, providing a map from the plurality of virtual disks to the plurality of physical disks, storing, based on the map, the data and the redundant information in the plurality of physical disks according to a predetermined allocation policy, and in response to at least one of the plurality of physical disks failing, implementing a data reconstruction for a disk array based on the redundant information and the data in working disks from amongst the plurality of physical disks.

Method and apparatus for accelerating data reconstruction for a disk array

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, a computer program product and an apparatus for determining a failure location in a storage system by obtaining performance information of a disk; in response to the performance information indicating that at least one or more performance indices exceed a corresponding predetermined threshold, determining whether a health condition of the disk is normal based on at least one or more performance indices; and in response to determining that the health condition of the disk is normal, determining a failure location based on the health condition information of at least one or more elements in a communication path of the disk, and it may be diagnosed whether a failure occurs to the disk per se or in its communication path, and before a potential failure occurs to the disk, it may also predict the failure thereby preventing data loss.

Determining failure location in a storage system

Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for monitoring health condition of a hard disk by obtaining full-dimensional characteristics associated with the hard disk, wherein the full-dimension characteristics comprise at least two of: hard disk performance information, data integrity information, input/output I/O correctness information, and a hard disk Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology S.M.A.R.T. report, and determining the health condition of the hard disk based on the full-dimension characteristics.

Monitoring health condition of a hard disk

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a computer program product and apparatus for management of a storage device by collecting bad storage units to be reconstructed in the storage device; determining a reconstruction priority level for each of the collected bad storage units; and scheduling reconstruction of the bad storage unit based on the determined reconstruction priority level.

Management of storage devices

Embodiments are directed to a method of online storage device firmware upgrades by suspending input/output (I/O) operations to the storage device upon notification of a firmware upgrade to the storage device, maintaining a stripe log that contains data stripes updated by I/O operations issued to the storage device during suspension of the storage device, triggering the firmware upgrade to the storage device while the storage device is in suspension, reactivating the disk and new firmware upon completion of the firmware upgrade, and reconstructing the updated data stripes from the stripe log on the storage device after the reactivating step.

Method and system to perform non-intrusive online disk firmware upgrades

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and apparatus for improving performance of a de-clustered disk array by making statistics on a number and types of active input/output (I/O) requests of each of the plurality of physical disks; dividing the plurality of physical disks at least into a first schedule group and a second schedule group based on the statistic number and types of the active I/O requests of the each physical disk for a predetermined time period, the first schedule group having a first schedule priority, the second schedule group having a second schedule priority higher than the first schedule priority; and selecting, in a decreasing order of the schedule priority, a physical disk for schedule from one of the resulting schedule groups thereby preventing too many I/O requests from concentrating on some physical disks and thereby improve overall performance of a de-clustered RAID.

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