Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Storage system comprising multiple storage apparatuses with both storage virtualization function and capacity virtualization function
- Patent Title (中): 存储系统包括具有存储虚拟化功能和容量虚拟化功能的多个存储设备
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Application No.: US13938572Application Date: 2013-07-10
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Publication No.: US08880810B2Publication Date: 2014-11-04
- Inventor: Akira Yamamoto , Noboru Morishita , Hideo Saito , Yoshiaki Eguchi , Masayuki Yamamoto
- Applicant: Hitachi Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00 ; G06F3/06

Abstract:
A storage system includes a first storage apparatus and a second storage apparatus. The first storage apparatus includes a capacity pool that is partitioned into multiple pool pages and includes a storage area of an external logical volume provided by at least one storage apparatus. The second storage apparatus provides first virtual volume which is a virtual logical volume comprising multiple first virtual areas. In a case of receiving a write request from the computer to a virtual area in the first virtual volume to which a page is not allocated, an unallocated pool page of the external logical volume is allocated to the virtual area. An authority to allocate the unallocated pool page of the external logical volume is assigned to the first storage apparatus.
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