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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Ilias Iliadis, Rueschlikon, CH;
Yusik Kim, Zwolle, NL;
Slavisa Sarafijanovic, Adliswil, CH;
Vinodh Venkatesan, Waedenswil, CH;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An embodiment is directed to a method for determining an assignment of data to be stored on at least one storage tier i of a plurality of storage tiers of a tiered storage system. The method including, for the at least one storage tier i, steps of accessing storage device characteristics of the at least one storage tier i of the plurality; based on the accessed storage device characteristics, splitting the at least one storage tier i into Nstorage subtiers of the at least one storage tier i, the Nstorage subtiers having respective storage device characteristics; and based on characteristics of data to be stored on the tiered storage system and the respective storage device characteristics of the Nstorage subtiers, determining an assignment of data to be stored on each of the Nstorage subtiers. Embodiments are directed to related methods, systems and computer program products.