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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2020
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ronald Gerard Singler, Jr., Lakeland, FL (US);
Cormac Hogan, Ballincollig, IE;
Duncan Epping, Helmond, NL;
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
In an example, a method of allocating storage objects of a virtual machine across storage devices in a computing system includes: collecting capabilities of the storage devices in the computing system; assigning a tier of a plurality of tiers to each of the storage devices in the computing system; collecting performance data for the storage devices across a period of time; analyzing the performance data and the capabilities to determine a placement of storage objects of the virtual machine across the plurality of tiers; and moving the storage objects to respective ones of the storage devices based on the assigned tiers.