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Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 24, 2017
Applicant:

Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Paul McSweeney, Cork, IE;

Andrea Graham, County Cork, IE;

Ciara Stacke, County Cork, IE;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/34 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/3414 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 11/3409 (2013.01); G06F 11/3428 (2013.01); G06F 11/3485 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for identifying I/O workload patterns may include monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) for a monitoring period; and at the end of the monitoring period, performing processing including: determining whether there have been a specified number of occurrences of a predefined event with respect to a data portion of the application, wherein the predefined event is a violation of an application KPI for the application and also a violation of at least one of a plurality of data storage KPIs for the data portion of the application; and responsive to determining that there have been the specified number of the occurrences of the predefined event with respect to the first data portion of the application, recording a pattern of I/O workload for the data portion in accordance with the occurrences of the predefined event. Hints, such as affecting data movement and/or compression, may be generated based on detected patterns.


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