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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2017
Veritas Technologies Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sudhakar Paulzagade, Pune, IN;
Shreenivas Baitule, Pune, IN;
Veritas Technologies LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The computer-implemented method for apportioning bandwidth in storage systems may include (i) identifying a plurality of storage media and at least one workload that is assigned a quantity of credits at the beginning of a predetermined time period that regulate a volume of bandwidth for input/output requests from the workload, (ii) detecting an input/output request from the workload, (iii) deducting, before fulfilling the input/output request, a number of credits from a current number of credits available to the workload based on an estimated quantity of bandwidth consumed by the input/output request, (iv) measuring an actual quantity of bandwidth consumed by the input/output request, and (v) adjusting the current number of credits available to the workload for the predetermined time period based on a difference between the estimated quantity of bandwidth and the actual quantity of bandwidth.