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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2012
Amarinder Singh Randhawa, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Madhav Buddhi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chaitanya Yalamanchili, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Prasanta Dash, San Jose, CA (US);
Amarinder Singh Randhawa, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Madhav Buddhi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chaitanya Yalamanchili, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Prasanta Dash, San Jose, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
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.