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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2018
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Zongliang Li, Shanghai, CN;
Wenguang Wang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Christian Dickmann, Munich, DE;
Mansi Shah, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Tao Xie, Shanghai, CN;
Ye Zhang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Example methods are provided for unbalanced storage resource usage configuration for a distributed storage system in a virtualized computing environment. The method may comprise: obtaining usage data associated with multiple storage resources forming the distributed storage system; and based on the usage data, determining a higher usage set and a lower usage set from the multiple storage resources. The method also comprise configuring the multiple hosts to use the multiple storage resources in an unbalanced manner by using the higher usage set at a higher usage level compared to the lower usage set.