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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2016
Applicant:
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Tal Ben-Moshe, Kiryat Ono, IL;
Anton Kucherov, Milford, MA (US);
Niko Farhi, Petah-Tivka, IL;
Kirill Shoikhet, Raanana, IL;
David Krakov, Ramat Gan, IL;
Eli Dorfman, Raanana, IL;
Assignee:
EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G11C 29/52 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1068 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01); G11C 29/52 (2013.01);
Abstract
Described herein are embodiments of a process for efficiently allocating RAID stripes across an array of disks (e.g., SSDs). In some embodiments, the process can be used to allocate RAID stripes across a 'heterogeneous' storage array (i.e., an array of different sized disks). Also described herein are embodiments of a storage system that utilize said processing.