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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2005
Richard Andrew Golding, San Francisco, CA (US);
Theodore Ming-tao Wong, Mountain View, CA (US);
Omer Ahmed Zaki, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard Andrew Golding, San Francisco, CA (US);
Theodore Ming-Tao Wong, Mountain View, CA (US);
Omer Ahmed Zaki, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A resource management system uses a virtual resource pool distributed across a set of storage devices to manage resources in a distributed storage system. The storage devices dedicate a resource in an allocation pool available to the virtual resource pool. The virtual resource pool is a virtual storage server in which an application receives at least a predetermined amount of storage capacity, a predetermined level of performance, or a predetermined reliability, represented by tokens. A virtual resource pool manager gives the tokens to an application. The application transmits the tokens along with the commands to the storage device. The token represents a right to consume up to some limit of resources on a specific storage device in a computing session. The storage device locally tracks resource consumption through the token.