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Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018

Filed:

Jun. 28, 2016
Applicant:

Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Owen Martin, Hopedale, MA (US);

Malak Alshawabkeh, Franklin, MA (US);

Hui Wang, Upton, MA (US);

Sean Dolan, Southborough, MA (US);

Xiaomei Liu, Southborough, NC (US);

Assignee:

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0605 (2013.01); G06F 3/0649 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01); G06F 12/023 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1041 (2013.01); G06F 2212/261 (2013.01);
Abstract

High performance storage resources are proactively deallocated when a storage group exceeds its service level objective. A load score is calculated for each unit of storage allocated from a high performance physical disk group. A minimum load score is determined that is the lowest load score calculated for the storage units allocated from the high performance disk group to the storage group. When the storage group service level objective is exceeded, a demotion threshold is calculated equal to a product of the minimum load score and a demotion range factor. A demotion set is determined made up of storage units allocated from the high performance disk group having load scores less than or equal to the demotion threshold. Host data stored on the demotion set is migrated to storage from a lower performance disk group, and the high performance units of storage in the demotion set are released for re-allocation.


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