Invention Grant
US08578092B2 Method and apparatus to support determining storage area unit size
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支持确定存储区域单元大小的方法和装置
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus to support determining storage area unit size
- Patent Title (中): 支持确定存储区域单元大小的方法和装置
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Application No.: US12692839Application Date: 2010-01-25
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Publication No.: US08578092B2Publication Date: 2013-11-05
- Inventor: Hiroshi Arakawa
- Applicant: Hiroshi Arakawa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Mattingly & Malur, PC
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00

Abstract:
An information system comprises a host computer; a management computer; and a storage system including a storage controller and a plurality of storage volumes, the storage system configured to provide thin provisioned volumes from the plurality of storage volumes to the host computer for input/output. Each thin provisioned volume includes a plurality of segments which are provided by chunks of the storage volumes in the storage system. The storage controller is configured to assign a chunk to a segment on demand, analyze effectiveness of different chunk sizes for a chunk to be assigned to a segment and provide a report of the analyzed effectiveness to the management computer, and determine a size of a chunk to be assigned to a segment based on input from the management computer after the management computer receives the report of analyzed effectiveness.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110185140A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS TO SUPPORT DETERMINING STORAGE AREA UNIT SIZE Public/Granted day:2011-07-28
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