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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2001
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Described are techniques used in connection with determining one or more pairs of logical volumes (LVs) to increase the performance of storage devices by swapping these LVs. Future performance of the anticipated potential LV swap is determined in accordance with past performance data collected prior to actually performing the swap. Data is gathered for a first arrangement of data storage devices for a period of time. A proposed modification to the first arrangement, such as swapping LVs of data on one or more storage devices, is produced. A performance estimation is produced using past performance data for the one or more pairs of proposed LV swap candidates. The search for pairs of LV candidates is determined using an iterative technique in which earlier iterations attempt to produce candidates from a smaller, more focused pool of possible LVs. The pool of LVs is expanded upon subsequent iterations if earlier iterations using heuristics providing for a more focused search are unsuccessful.