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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2005
Bruce Filgate, Boylston, MA (US);
Charles D. O'toole, Northborough, MA (US);
Peter Yakutis, Lexington, MA (US);
Douglas Wallace Sharp, Acton, MA (US);
Bruce Filgate, Boylston, MA (US);
Charles D. O'Toole, Northborough, MA (US);
Peter Yakutis, Lexington, MA (US);
Douglas Wallace Sharp, Acton, MA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method, for determining sufficiency of a given set of portions included within a storage system (SS) to accommodate one or more flows of data anticipated as flowing therethrough, may include: configuring the given set to include at least one of following portions, a given stable of one or more providers of data-storage (PDSs), and an SS-infrastructure; identifying components within members of the given set as queuing centers according to the one or more flows, respectively; estimating one or more capacity values, based upon the one or more flows, that will be demanded of the components, respectively; and determining whether the estimated one or more capacity values are acceptable in a context of corresponding capacity values attributed to the components, respectively.