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Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018

Filed:

Jul. 31, 2015
Applicant:

Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Mark Regester, Wichita, KS (US);

Randolph Sterns, Boulder, CO (US);

Assignee:

NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0635 (2013.01); G06F 3/0613 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 11/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes: communicating input output (I/O) operations between a first storage controller and a storage drive, wherein the storage drive includes a first port and a second port, further wherein the first controller accesses the second port of the storage drive via a second storage controller; measuring bandwidth utilization on a first channel of a plurality of channels between the first storage controller and the storage drive; and in response to measuring the bandwidth utilization, changing a routing scheme for the I/O operations with respect to either the first port or the second port or both.


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