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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2012
Noriko Nakajima, Machida, JP;
Akihisa Nagami, Yokohama, JP;
Toru Tanaka, Sagamihara, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A storage apparatus of an embodiment of the invention including one or more storage drives for providing real storage resources and a controller for controlling the one or more storage drives and accesses from a host computer. The controller initializes real storage resources and manages the initialized real storage resources. The controller receives an instruction for allocating an initialized real storage resource to a first virtual storage resource accessed by the host computer. In response to the instruction, the controller allocates a first initialized real storage resource which has been initialized in advance prior to the instruction to the first virtual storage resource.