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Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 27, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Muhammad Sohaib Aslam, Ajax, CA;

Steven Langridge, Markham, CA;

Tiia Salo, Cary, SC (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0806 (2013.01); G06F 12/0868 (2013.01); G06F 12/0813 (2013.01); G06F 12/0815 (2013.01); G06F 15/17331 (2013.01); G06F 2009/4557 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1021 (2013.01); G06F 2212/151 (2013.01); G06F 2212/152 (2013.01); G06F 2212/154 (2013.01); G06F 2212/284 (2013.01); G06F 2212/621 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system of selecting and migrating relevant data from among data associated with a workload of a virtual machine and stored in source storage cache memory in a dynamic computing environment is described. The method includes selecting one or more policies, the one or more policies including a size policy defining a default maximum size for the relevant data. The method also includes selecting the relevant data from among the data based on the one or more policies in a default mode, and migrating the relevant data from the source storage cache memory to target storage cache memory.


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