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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2021
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
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.