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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2009
David Ray Kahler, Tucson, AZ (US);
Richard Anthony Ripberger, Tucson, AZ (US);
David Ray Kahler, Tucson, AZ (US);
Richard Anthony Ripberger, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computational device receives input information on characteristics of customer data, critical metadata, and non-critical metadata, and characteristics of disk array configurations, wherein customer data is to be stored encrypted, wherein critical metadata is to be stored non-encrypted, and wherein non-critical metadata is to be stored encrypted or non-encrypted. The computational device determines band boundary information based on the received input information. Encrypting disks with pre-established bands are created based on the band boundary information and the encrypting disks are pre-initialized.