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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2008
Craig William Fellenstein, Brookfield, CT (US);
Carl Phillip Gusler, Austin, TX (US);
Rick Allen Hamilton, Ii, Charlottesville, VA (US);
James Wesley Seaman, Falls Church, VA (US);
Craig William Fellenstein, Brookfield, CT (US);
Carl Phillip Gusler, Austin, TX (US);
Rick Allen Hamilton, II, Charlottesville, VA (US);
James Wesley Seaman, Falls Church, VA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for path saturation in a storage area network so that the throughput of the storage area network may be determined. The system and method includes a software utility suite that uses either a system administration scripting language, e.g., Perl or Korn shell, or by compiled or machine language software. The software utility suite includes a set of software tools to be installed on one or more computer systems sharing access to a data storage system, such as a storage area network (SAN). The software tools running on these separate computer systems communicate and collaborate in a peer-to-peer fashion in order to coordinate loading, testing and measurement of storage throughput on the shared data storage system. The software tools further coordinate the collection, storage and presentation of results data obtained through such loading, testing and measurement of the storage throughput of the shared data storage system.