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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2014
Applicant:
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Vinod Kumar Daga, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Craig Johnston, Livermore, CA (US);
Ling Zheng, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30303 (2013.01); G06F 17/30079 (2013.01); G06F 17/30156 (2013.01); G06F 17/3015 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method performed in a system that has a plurality of volumes stored to storage hardware, the method including generating, for each of the volumes, a respective space saving potential iteratively over time and scheduling space saving operations among the plurality of volumes by analyzing each of the volumes for space saving potential and assigning priority of resources based at least in part on space saving potential.