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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2006
John Charles Tyrrell, San Jose, CA (US);
Konstantinos Roussos, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Peter Logan Smoot, San Jose, CA (US);
John Charles Tyrrell, San Jose, CA (US);
Konstantinos Roussos, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Peter Logan Smoot, San Jose, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for implementing storage management with threshold control is provided. A flexible storage manager associates storage devices having a similar performance characteristic into logical constructs called storage groups. Storage groups having the same performance characteristic from a plurality of storage systems are organized into storage pools. The flexible storage manager automatically provisions storage on a storage pool basis. Should a low threshold utilization be exceeded, the flexible storage manager performs a set of management policies to lower the utilization of a storage pool to the low threshold.