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Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 29, 2016
Applicant:

Infinidat Ltd., Herzliya, IL;

Inventors:

Haim Helman, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Qun Fan, Irvine, CA (US);

Venu Nayar, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

INFINIDAT LTD., Herzliya, IL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0611 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for service level agreement allocation of permanent storage layer resources of a storage system, the method may include monitoring, by a control layer of the storage system, actual performances of the storage system that are related to multiple logical volumes; calculating actual-to-required relationships between the actual performances and service level agreement defined performances of the multiple logical volumes; allocating, for different logical volumes of the multiple logical volumes, allowable amounts of pending access requests; wherein the allocating is based on, at least, the actual-to-required relationships; receiving, by the control layer, received access requests aimed to one or more logical volumes of the logical volumes; and sending to the permanent storage layer requests to serve at least some of the received access requests, based on the allowable amounts of pending access requests.


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