International Business Machines Corporation

Russell G Conner

Clea Anne Zolotow

Anthony M Hunt

Daniel P Toulan

Johan Van Kessel

One or more processors determine a throughput of hardware devices operatively coupled to a target Storage Area Network (SAN) prior to a SAN migration from a source SAN to the target SAN. Buffers within a processor core in the source SAN contain intermediate execution outputs of components within the processor core. The processor(s) determine an estimated time duration required to retrieve the soft state from a central processing unit (CPU) queue in the source SAN processor and to migrate the soft state of the processor core from the source SAN to the target SAN, in order to determine an estimated size and time of the SAN migration from the source SAN to the target SAN. The processor(s) then configure transmission resources available to the source SAN to comport with the estimated size and time of the SAN migration from the source SAN to the target SAN.

Configuring transmission resources during storage area network migration

A computer-implemented method sizes a Storage Area Network (SAN) storage migration. One or more processors determine Input/output Operations Per Second (IOPS) and throughput of hardware devices operatively coupled to a target Storage Area Network (SAN) prior to a SAN migration from a source SAN to the target SAN. One or more processors determine an estimated time and size of the SAN migration based on the IOPS and the throughput of the hardware devices. One or more processors then configure transmission resources available to the source SAN to comport with the estimated time and size of the SAN migration.

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Russell G Conner