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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2013
Applicant:
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Raphael Yahalom, Needham, MA (US);
Assaf Levy, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 9/455 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and systems for periodically analyzing and correcting storage load imbalances in a storage network environment including virtual machines are described. These methods and systems account for various resource types, logical access paths, and relationships among different storage environment components. Load balancing may be managed in terms of input/output (I/O) traffic and storage utilization. The aggregated information is stored, and may be used to identify and correct load imbalances in a virtual server environment in order to prevent primary congestion and bottlenecks.