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Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2014
Applicant:

Emc Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Haleh Tabrizi, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Rajiv Agarwal, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Jeffrey Paul Ferreira, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Michael W. Shapiro, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 23/19 (2006.01); G06F 1/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 23/19 (2013.01); G05D 23/1902 (2013.01); G06F 1/206 (2013.01); G05B 2219/2614 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for managing a storage appliance. The method includes determining an input/output (I/O) workload characterization (IWC) for the storage appliance. The method further includes determining an optimized temperature for the storage modules in the storage appliance based on the IWC, determining that a current temperature of the storage modules is not the optimized temperature, and modifying operation of at least one active cooling component in the storage appliance to change the current temperature of the storage modules to the optimized temperature.


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