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Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2013

Filed:

Feb. 18, 2010
Applicants:

Hiroshi Nasu, Yokohama, JP;

Hirokazu Ikeda, Yamato, JP;

Yoshiaki Eguchi, Yokohama, JP;

Toshimichi Kishimoto, Hadano, JP;

Inventors:

Hiroshi Nasu, Yokohama, JP;

Hirokazu Ikeda, Yamato, JP;

Yoshiaki Eguchi, Yokohama, JP;

Toshimichi Kishimoto, Hadano, JP;

Assignee:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Multiple types of storage devices which have different performance are appropriately allocated to multiple virtual volumes in accordance with the performance requirements of the respective virtual volumes. In cases where, among virtual volumesfor which response times have been specified, there is a [virtual volume] that has a shortage of pages to which SSDsshould be allocated and that does not satisfy the performance requirement when its Tier boundary value β is adjusted to Tier boundary value β' and, if unallocated pages as the pages to which SSDsshould be allocated do not exist, Tier boundary value γ or Tier boundary value α of another virtual volume is adjusted to Tier boundary value γ′ or the Tier boundary value α′, and pages to which SSDsare allocated are secured in the virtual volumefor which the Tier boundary value has been adjusted.


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