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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 26, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Rohith K. Ashok, Durham, NC (US);

Roy F. Brabson, Raleigh, NC (US);

Wei L. Chan, Cary, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 15/17 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0611 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0613 (2013.01); G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0658 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0665 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 9/5011 (2013.01); G06F 15/17 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and technique for allocation and balancing of storage resources includes monitoring, for each of a plurality of storage controllers, input/output (I/O) latency, network bandwidth utilization, and network latency associated with each storage volume controlled by a respective storage controller. Responsive to receiving a request to allocate a new storage volume, a type of application and an anticipated storage workload level that will utilize one or more of the storage volumes by the application is determined. The I/O latency, network bandwidth utilization, and network latency is analyzed relative to respective thresholds, and the new storage volume is allocated to a selected storage controller based on the analysis and the anticipated storage workload level.


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