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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Brent C. Beardsley, Tucson, AZ (US);
Michael T. Benhase, Tucson, AZ (US);
Binny S. Gill, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Lokesh M. Gupta, Tucson, AZ (US);
Sonny E. Williams, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Destaging storage tracks from each rank that includes a greater than a predetermined percentage of a predetermined amount of storage space with respect to a current amount of storage space allocated to each rank until the current amount of storage space used by each respective rank is equal to the predetermined percentage of the predetermined amount of storage space. The destage storage tracks are declined from being destaged from each rank that includes less than or equal to the predetermined percentage of the predetermined amount of storage space rank.