Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Storage apparatus and storage area allocation method
- Patent Title (中): 存储设备和存储区域分配方法
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Application No.: US13312670Application Date: 2011-12-06
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Publication No.: US08312246B2Publication Date: 2012-11-13
- Inventor: Tomoyuki Kato , Kenji Yamagami
- Applicant: Tomoyuki Kato , Kenji Yamagami
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Priority: JP2006-092236 20060329
- Main IPC: G06F12/08
- IPC: G06F12/08

Abstract:
A storage system, method and program product, the system comprising: storage devices; and a controller configured to: provide virtual volumes to a host computer; manage logical units on the storage device and storage pools; allocate, in response to receiving a write request to a virtual volume, a storage region of the storage pools; and store data related to the write request in the storage region allocated, wherein the controller is further configured to: allocate first storage region in first storage pool to first virtual volume based on first size of the first storage region or the first virtual volume; allocate a second storage region in a second storage pool to a second virtual volume of the plurality of virtual volumes based on a second size of the second storage region or the second virtual volume.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120144116A1 STORAGE APPARATUS AND STORAGE AREA ALLOCATION METHOD Public/Granted day:2012-06-07
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