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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 21, 2021
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Shaul Dar, Petach Tikva, IL;

Gajanan S. Natu, Cary, NC (US);

Vladimir Shveidel, Pardes-Hana, IL;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0613 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0622 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01);
Abstract

Load balancing may include: receiving I/O workloads of storage server entities that service I/O operations received for logical devices, wherein each logical device has an owner that is one of the storage server entities that processes I/O operations directed to the logical device; determining normalized I/O workloads corresponding to the I/O workloads of the storage server entities; determining, in accordance with utilization criteria, imbalance criteria and the normalized I/O workloads, whether to rebalance the I/O workloads of the storage server entities; and responsive to determining to rebalance the I/O workloads of the storage server entities, performing processing to alleviate a detected I/O workload imbalance between two storage server entities. The processing may include moving logical device from a first storage server entity to a second storage server entity; and transferring ownership of the logical device from the first to the second storage server entity.


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