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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
May. 03, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
John J. Auvenshine, Tucson, AZ (US);
Laura Richardson, Tampa, FL (US);
Dave Aime Desire Kodjo, Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, CA;
Lisa M. Chavez, Placitas, NM (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, computer system, and computer program product for determining whether data compression should be performed at a storage virtualization layer or a backend layer, within a storage area network, including assessing a volume of data to decide whether the volume of data should be compressed or is already compressed, and in response to deciding that the volume of data should be compressed: checking whether a restriction exists on the volume of data, and in response to deciding that the volume of data is already compressed: determining that the volume of data already compressed should be uncompressed based on at least one metric.