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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Ohad Atia, Haifa, IL;
Amalia Avraham, Petach Tikva, IL;
Ran Harel, Kfar-Saba, IL;
Rivka M. Matosevich, Zichron-Ya'acov, IL;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments for volume management in a data storage environment. A network sniffing operation between virtual machines is performed to detect relationships between the virtual machines and thereby identify candidates for subsequent storage volume affiliation operations. The network sniffing operation detects the relationships based on network traffic or alternative similarity attributes of an existing placement of the virtual machines thereby deducing affiliations of storage volumes between the virtual machines such that, during the storage volume affiliation operations, the existing placement of the virtual machines is not modified. The identified candidates to be added to a new or existing storage volume affiliation operation are recommended to a user via a prompt.