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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020

Filed:

Nov. 29, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Rohith K. Ashok, Durham, NC (US);

Roy F. Brabson, Raleigh, NC (US);

Wei L. Chan, Cary, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 15/17 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0611 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0613 (2013.01); G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0658 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0665 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 9/5011 (2013.01); G06F 15/17 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and technique for allocation and balancing of storage resources includes monitoring, for each of a plurality of storage controllers, an input/output (I/O) latency value based on an I/O latency associated with each storage volume controlled by a respective storage controller. A network bandwidth utilization value and a network latency value corresponding to each storage controller is also monitored. An I/O latency value threshold, a network bandwidth utilization threshold, and a network latency value threshold is determined. Responsive to at least one of the I/O latency value, the network bandwidth utilization value and the network latency value for at least one storage controller exceeding a respective threshold, storage volume distribution among the storage controllers is rebalanced.


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