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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:
Oct. 28, 2008

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2005
Applicants:

Yuichi Taguchi, Sagamihara, JP;

Fumi Miyazaki, Fujisawa, JP;

Masayuki Yamamoto, Sagamihara, JP;

Yasunori Kaneda, Sagamihara, JP;

Inventors:

Yuichi Taguchi, Sagamihara, JP;

Fumi Miyazaki, Fujisawa, JP;

Masayuki Yamamoto, Sagamihara, JP;

Yasunori Kaneda, Sagamihara, JP;

Assignee:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A management apparatus, a management method, and a storage management system that more specifically manage power consumption, making it easy to analyze problems relating to power consumption or properly relocate data are provided. A power consumption for each of a plurality of memory apparatus groups each consisting of a plurality of memory apparatuses in a storage system is computed based on a performance for each of a plurality of logical storage extents defined in a plurality of storage extents provided by each of the memory apparatus groups, and a value of the power consumption for each of one or more of the memory apparatus groups obtained by the computation is output together with information on an access status of each of the corresponding logical storage extents.


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