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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
May. 08, 2015
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
A system includes brick(s); and at least one processor programmed to operate a storage space manager for the brick(s); wherein each brick includes processing units and storage devices coupled therewith and having assigned primary processing units; wherein the storage space manager assigns a priority value to each available contiguous portion of the storage devices, based on weighted criteria, and chooses a subset of the available contiguous portions, in accordance with the assigned priority values, to form a logical disk, wherein the logical disk includes at least one available portion from each of two or more of the storage devices; and wherein the weighted criteria comprise capacity of a given processing unit to provide all storage device portions needed to complete a logical disk request from two or more storage devices to which the given processing unit is assigned as the primary processing unit.