ON DEMAND, NON-CAPACITY BASED PROCESS, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM TO DETERMINE MAINTENANCE FEES FOR DISK DATA STORAGE SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:CA2577941A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-04-13

    申请号:CA2577941

    申请日:2005-09-15

    Applicant: IBM

    Abstract: In one aspect the invention provides a signal bearing medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions that are executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform operations to determine a maintenance fee for a data storage system. The operations include monitoring at least one data storage device during operation of the data storage system to determine a duty cycle and determining a current value of the maintenance fee based at least in part on the determined duty cycle. In a further disk drive-based embodiment the operations may include, or be instead, determining a disk drive redundancy configuration of disk drives of a data storage system. The operations then compare the determined duty cycle to a threshold value and assert a redundancy configuration change signal based on the result of the comparison. For a RAID configuration embodiment having a RAID level, the asserting operation asserts a RAID level change signal based on the result of the comparison.

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