Dell Products Inc.

Emc IP Holding Company LLC

James H Shimer

Vamsi K Vankamamidi

Michael P Wahl

Svetlana Kronrod

Dixitkumar Vishnubhai Patel

James O Owens

Zhiyi Yang

Zhuoqun Yuan

Vibhash M Desai

A method, computer program product, and computing system for defining a plurality of IO processing queues within a storage system coupled to a storage platform, wherein the plurality of IO processing queues have differing priority levels; receiving one or more IO requests on the storage system coupled to the storage platform; assigning the one or more IO requests to one or more of the plurality of IO processing queues based, at least in part, upon a priority level of the one or more IO requests; and servicing the plurality of IO processing queues in a distributed fashion.

System and method using IOPS to service priority queues in a distributed manner

A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving one or more IO requests on a storage system coupled to a cloud-based storage platform, wherein the cloud-based storage platform has a defined maximum IOPS rate; determining a current level of utilization of the defined maximum IOPS rate; and determining whether to queue the one or more IO requests for an aggregated write operation to the cloud-based storage platform based, at least in part, upon the current level of utilization of the defined maximum IOPS rate.

Storage management system and method

An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to determine that a first data structure comprises an indication that a first logical page is an orphan and to obtain the first logical page based at least in part on the determination. The processing device is configured to identify a pointer to a second logical page from a second data structure of the first logical page and to determine a data offset that corresponds to the pointer. The processing device is configured to determine a snapshot group that corresponds to the first logical page and to identify a candidate logical page based at least in part on the data offset, the snapshot group and the pointer. The processing device is configured to determine that the candidate logical page is a match for the first logical page and to link the candidate logical page and the first logical page together.

Reconstruction of links to orphaned logical pages in a storage system

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