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Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 17, 2018
Applicant:

Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Wayne Weihua Li, Beijing, CN;

Jian Gao, Beijing, CN;

Hongpo Gao, Beijing, CN;

Jamin Kang, Beijing, CN;

Xinlei Xu, Beijing, CN;

Tao Xu, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0611 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of managing a disk pool, the disk pool having a plurality of disks which are divided into a plurality of disk extents, the method comprising: determining the number of input/output (I/O) requests for disk extents in the disk pool within a predetermined period of time; determining respective hotness of the disk extents based on the number of I/O requests; determining hotness of the disks based on the hotness of the disk extents; and determining migration of data in the disk extents based on the hotness of the disk.


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