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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2009
Carl Phillip Gusler, Austin, TX (US);
Rick Allen Hamilton, Ii, Charlottesville, VA (US);
James Wesley Seaman, Falls Church, VA (US);
Timothy Moffett Waters, Hiram, GA (US);
Carl Phillip Gusler, Austin, TX (US);
Rick Allen Hamilton, II, Charlottesville, VA (US);
James Wesley Seaman, Falls Church, VA (US);
Timothy Moffett Waters, Hiram, GA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention is an improvement to a storage virtualization system that enables the system to determine a class of service for potential storage devices and allows a user, administrator, or application to select a minimum class of service for any given type of data. The class of service is based upon factors that reflect a potential storage device's reliability, such as the device type and historical uptime data. In a P2P environment, the class of service also includes additional factors, such as the type of attached processing unit and the type of operating system running the attached processing unit.