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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2020
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Dennis Trulli, Jr., Littleton, MA (US);
Peter Callewaert, Puurs-Sint-Amands, BE;
Dell Products, L.P., Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A consistency group is defined to include a set of required devices on a set of storage systems. High activity devices are determined, and write dependencies between each high activity device and each low activity devices are monitored. A set of high importance devices is determined to include the high activity devices and low activity devices with a high write dependency on at least one of the high activity devices. Comparative write patterns between the high importance devices and low importance devices are used to determine a set of candidate devices for removal from the consistency group. The high importance devices, rather than all devices of the consistency group, are also used to determine a set of devices that have inadvertently not been included in the consistency group.