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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2014
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Ajith Balakrishnan, Bangalore, IN;
Felix Shvaiger, Brighton, MA (US);
Alexandr Veprinsky, Brookline, MA (US);
Arieh Don, Newton, MA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Example embodiments relate to a method, a system, and a computer program product for load balancing for port selection. The method includes determining a processing load for each storage port in a plurality of storage ports having variable processing power and calculating a delay characteristic for each storage port of the plurality of storage ports according to its processing load. A command then may be sent to a selected storage port of the plurality of storage ports according to the delay characteristics and a policy.