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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2004
Kimberly Keeton, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Wilkes, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Cipriano A. Santos, Modesto, CA (US);
Dirk Beyer, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Jeffrey Scott Chase, Durham, NC (US);
Arif Merchant, Los Altos, CA (US);
Kimberly Keeton, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Wilkes, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Cipriano A. Santos, Modesto, CA (US);
Dirk Beyer, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Jeffrey Scott Chase, Durham, NC (US);
Arif Merchant, Los Altos, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of a method of designing a storage system begins with a step of assigning decision variables to a range of candidate storage systems. Each of the decision variables identifies a single candidate storage system. The method concludes with a step of employing the decision variables in a mathematical program to determine which of the candidate storage systems meets availability and reliability criteria and incurs a near minimal projected cost.