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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2012
Raymond a Ritter, Spring, TX (US);
Balaji Natrajan, Spring, TX (US);
Michael G Myrah, Cypress, TX (US);
Raymond A Ritter, Spring, TX (US);
Balaji Natrajan, Spring, TX (US);
Michael G Myrah, Cypress, TX (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A volume group power control system and a corresponding method are disclosed. The system is to organize a plurality of drive systems into a plurality of logical volume groups and to store group data identifying each of the plurality of logical volume groups. Each of the logical volume groups includes a plurality of the drive systems. The array controller includes a power management component to monitor activity of each of the plurality of drive systems in each of the plurality of logical volume groups and to deactivate the plurality of drive systems associated with a given one of the plurality of logical volume groups in response to the power management component determining that the plurality of drive systems associated with the given one of the plurality of logical volume groups is substantially inactive.