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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2018
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Ronald Karr, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Peter E. Kirkpatrick, Mountain View, CA (US);
Andrew R. Bernat, Mountain View, CA (US);
Tsu-Hao Chang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Phil Hord, Mountain View, CA (US);
Benjamin Scholbrock, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Radek Aster, Campbell, CA (US);
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of automatic load rebalancing includes determining that a new storage device was added to a storage array comprising a plurality of storage devices, wherein the new storage device is distinct from the plurality of storage devices. The method further includes, in response to the determining, identifying a first shard on a first storage device of the plurality of storage devices, wherein the first storage device has a fullness metric that is equal to or exceeds a fullness threshold. The method further includes moving, by a processing device of a storage array controller of the storage array, the first shard from the first storage device to the new storage device.