Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Identification of volumes for thin provisioning
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Application No.: US15377614Application Date: 2016-12-13
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Publication No.: US10552076B2Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Inventor: Mirza S. Baig , Paul Lawrence Bradshaw , Divyesh Jadav , Bryan Steward Langston , Nagapramod S. Mandagere , Aameek Singh
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Ference & Associates LLC
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06

Abstract:
One embodiment provides a method, including: generating, for each of a plurality of storage volumes, an actual used storage capacity model and identifying a potential storage capacity savings using the actual used capacity model, wherein each of the plurality of storage volumes has been identified as a candidate for migration to a thin provisioned volume; generating, for each of the plurality of storage volumes, an input/output profile model and identifying a potential change in performance of an application accessing the storage volume using the input/output profile model; generating, for each of the plurality of storage volumes, a growth profile and identifying a potential change in capacity using the growth profile; and determining, using an optimization algorithm, a subset of the plurality of storage volumes to be migrated to thin provisioned volumes based upon the volume capacity model, the performance model, and the volume growth profile.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180165033A1 IDENTIFICATION OF VOLUMES FOR THIN PROVISIONING Public/Granted day:2018-06-14
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