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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2014
Applicant:
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Thomas Lee Watson, Richardson, TX (US);
Anoop George Ninan, Milford, MA (US);
Assignee:
EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0664 (2013.01); G06F 3/0617 (2013.01); G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one aspect, a method includes filtering one or more available ports on a data storage system to determine candidate ports based on at least their hardware redundancy information. The data storage system includes one or more data storage volumes. The method also includes allocating one or more ports to the data storage volume from the candidate ports based on a usage metric to enable communication from a host, using the one or more allocated ports, to the data storage volume through the one or more storage components.