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Patent No.:

US 9411627 B1

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Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 18, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Hao T. Chang, Cupertino, CA (US);

Catherine C. Diep, Cupertino, CA (US);

Harold H. Hall, Jr., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 9/5011 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45562 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45579 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, system and computer program product for allocating storage for virtual machine instances. The input/output (I/O) usage of disk extents utilized by a virtual machine is saved in an I/O profile of the virtual machine. In response to deallocating the virtual machine, the I/O usage of the disk extents is extracted from its I/O profile and saved in a data structure. Upon starting a new instance of the virtual machine, new disk extents are allocated to the new virtual machine instance. The I/O usage of the disk extents for the previous incarnation of the virtual machine is applied to the disk extents allocated to the new virtual machine instance. The newly allocated disk extents can now be placed in either a solid-state drive device or a hard disk drive device based on this I/O history without requiring a twenty-four hour long cycle.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Chang, Hao. (2016). Allocating storage for virtual machine instances based on input/output (i/o) usage rate of the disk extents stored in an i/o profile of a previous incarnation of the virtual machine (U.S. Patent No. 9411627). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9411627

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