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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2017
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mahmoud K. Jibbe, Wichita, KS (US);
Charles Binford, Wichita, KS (US);
NETAPP, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and device that assists with reducing initialization duration and performance impact during configuration of storage drives includes identifying a plurality of new storage drives in a storage system. Next, one or more zeroed out storage drives is identified from the identified plurality of new storage drives based on information present in a data portion of each the identified plurality of new storage drives. A volume group comprising the identified one or more zeroed out drives is created and this created volume group is provided for data operation.