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Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 05, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

John P. Agombar, Winchester, GB;

Ian Boden, Southampton, GB;

Gordon D. Hutchison, Eastleigh, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1092 (2013.01); G06F 11/1088 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for managing a RAID array of data storage devices. The declustered RAID array is configured to tolerate a predetermined number of failing data storage devices. The declustered RAID array of data storage devices is split into a plurality of regions, each of the plurality of regions is divided into a plurality of sets, and each of the sets of the plurality of sets utilizes a different combination of the data storage devices. The declustered RAID array provisions a plurality of LUNs from respective sets of each of the plurality of regions, and in response to a failure of one or more of the plurality of data storage devices, up to the predetermined number of failing data storage devices, the RAID array rebuilds at least one copy of each of the plurality of virtual LUNs.


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