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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2014
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Fanglu Guo, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Veritas Technologies, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for dynamic load balancing on disks may include (1) calculating the spare throughput for each disk, (2) identifying a lightly loaded disk and a heavily loaded disk, (3) identifying a set of workloads to be transferred from the heavily loaded disk to the lightly loaded disk by: (a) beginning with the set empty, (b) identifying candidate workloads on the heavily loaded disk, (c) adding a new workload from the candidate workloads to the set when the new workload would not reduce the spare throughput on the lightly loaded disk below a threshold if both the set and the workload were transferred to the lightly loaded disk, and (d) considering each workload for transfer in order from most throughput consumed to least throughput consumed, and (4) transferring the set of workloads. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.