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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2010
Applicants:
Sridhar Balasubramanian, Wichita, KS (US);
Kenneth J. Fugate, Wichita, KS (US);
Inventors:
Sridhar Balasubramanian, Wichita, KS (US);
Kenneth J. Fugate, Wichita, KS (US);
Assignee:
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a method for providing Quality Of Service (QoS)-based storage tiering and migration in a storage system. The method allows for configurable application data latency thresholds to be set on a per user basis and/or a per application basis so that a storage tiering mechanism and/or a storage migrating mechanism may be triggered for moving application data to a different class of storage.