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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2023
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Shota Kukita, Tokyo, JP;
Takahiro Nakano, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Vantara, Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A storage operation support apparatus includes a storage unit that stores storage device information that stores information on a state of a storage device and an evaluation unit that evaluates an evaluation target storage device to be evaluated. With reference to the storage device information, the evaluation unit calculates an environment score indicating a magnitude of a load on an environment of the evaluation target storage device, calculates a cost score indicating a magnitude of a cost of the evaluation target storage device, calculates a performance score indicating a slow speed of reading and writing data of the evaluation target storage device, and calculates a total score using the environment score, the cost score, and the performance score.