Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and device for storage management in a hierarchical storage system
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Application No.: US15711107Application Date: 2017-09-21
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Publication No.: US10795615B2Publication Date: 2020-10-06
- Inventor: Shuo Lv , Wilson Hu , Bean Zhao , Chao Han , Eileen Gu
- Applicant: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
- Applicant Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company, LLC
- Current Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Agency: Holland & Knight LLP
- Agent Brian J. Colandreo; Mark H. Whittenberger
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@14affa68
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06 ; G06F16/30 ; G06F16/11 ; G06F16/185

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a storage management method and device. The method comprises: obtaining an attribute and access information of a file stored in storage at a first level in a hierarchical storage system, the attribute of the file indicating a size of the file, and the access information indicating an access frequency of the file; determining necessity of migrating the file based on the attribute of the file and the access information; and in response to the necessity exceeding a predetermined threshold, migrating the file to storage at a second level in the hierarchical storage system, the second level being different from the first level. Embodiments of the present disclosure further disclose a corresponding device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180088870A1 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR STORAGE MANAGEMENT Public/Granted day:2018-03-29
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