Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Storage system
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Application No.: US14762955Application Date: 2013-11-07
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Publication No.: US09720608B2Publication Date: 2017-08-01
- Inventor: Yasuo Watanabe , Norio Shimozono
- Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Mattingly & Malur, PC
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/080100 WO 20131107
- International Announcement: WO2015/068233 WO 20150514
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06

Abstract:
A storage control apparatus performs, for each virtual area to which a physical area is allocated, any one of coarse-grained management for managing a correspondence relationship between a virtual area and a physical area in a first size unit, and fine-grained management for managing a correspondence relationship between a virtual area and a physical area in a second size unit smaller than the first size unit. The storage control apparatus manages mapping information that expresses a correspondence relationship between a virtual area and a physical area. The storage control apparatus performs at least one of change of any of fine-grained virtual areas to a coarse-grained virtual area and change of any of coarse-grained virtual areas to a fine-grained virtual area, based on the number of duplication areas of each virtual area and a size of the mapping information.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150363129A1 STORAGE SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2015-12-17
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