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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2012
Gabriel Alatorre, San Jose, CA (US);
Christian Bolik, Bremen, DE;
Dietmar Noll, Mainz, DE;
Laura Richardson, Manassas, VA (US);
Aameek Singh, San Jose, CA (US);
Sudhir V. R. Koka, San Jose, CA (US);
Gabriel Alatorre, San Jose, CA (US);
Christian Bolik, Bremen, DE;
Dietmar Noll, Mainz, DE;
Laura Richardson, Manassas, VA (US);
Aameek Singh, San Jose, CA (US);
Sudhir V. R. Koka, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, computer readable storage medium and computer system for controlling the allocation of data to one of a plurality of storage units of a storage system, the method comprising: accessing a source storage unit comprising the data; gathering file system level (FS-level) metadata from the source storage unit; analyzing the gathered FS-level metadata for determining if the data should be moved to one of the other storage units, said other storage unit acting as a destination storage unit; and in case the data should be moved, displaying an indication of the destination storage unit and/or automatically moving the data to the determined destination storage unit.