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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2014
Applicant:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Shotaro Ohno, Fujisawa, JP;
Manabu Obana, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0634 (2013.01); G06F 3/0688 (2013.01); G06F 3/0616 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01);
Abstract
To facilitate the management of a storage system that uses a flash memory as a storage area. A controller of the storage system provided with a flash memory chip manages a surplus capacity value of the flash memory chip, and transmits a value based on the surplus capacity value to a management server, on the basis of at least one of a definition of a parity group, a definition of an internal LU, and a definition of a logical unit. The management server displays a state of the storage system by using the received value based on the surplus capacity value.