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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2002
Wayne Charles Carlson, Tucson, AZ (US);
Kevin Lee Gibble, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gregory Tad Kishi, Oro Valley, AZ (US);
Mark Allan Norman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Jonathan Wayne Peake, Tucson, AZ (US);
Wayne Charles Carlson, Tucson, AZ (US);
Kevin Lee Gibble, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gregory Tad Kishi, Oro Valley, AZ (US);
Mark Allan Norman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Jonathan Wayne Peake, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a method, system and article of manufacture for return processing in storage pools. A plurality of physical volumes are allocated to a first storage pool. A determination is made whether the first storage pool has more than a threshold number of empty physical volumes. If the first storage pool has more than the threshold number of empty physical volumes, then at least one empty physical volume is returned to a second storage pool.