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Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015

Filed:

Jan. 31, 2012
Applicants:

Amarinder Singh Randhawa, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Madhav Buddhi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Chaitanya Yalamanchili, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Prasanta Dash, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Amarinder Singh Randhawa, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Madhav Buddhi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Chaitanya Yalamanchili, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Prasanta Dash, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/12 (2006.01); G06F 13/38 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/167 (2006.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 13/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for load balancing. The method includes discovering each of a plurality of hosts in a cluster, wherein the plurality of hosts is configured for accessing a LUN of a storage system through a storage network fabric. Global input/output (I/O) load characteristics are collected for each of the plurality of hosts at the device and/or volume level. A selected host is determined for processing an I/O originating at the local host, wherein the host is selected based on a current set of the global I/O load characteristics.


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