Pooling and provisioning storage resources in a storage network

Details Pooling and provisioning storage resources in a storage network Pooling and provisioning storage resources in a storage network

2005-12-13

2005-12-13

Portka, Gary (Department: 2188)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Shared memory area

C709S214000, C710S316000, C711S170000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06976134

ABSTRACT:
A system in accordance with an embodiment of the invention provides Quality of Service (QoS) for Storage Access. Such QoS is partially enabled in one embodiment by the automatic pooling of storage devices and provisioning virtual targets from those pools. QoS is enforced in one embodiment by keeping the bandwidth for each connection within a specified range, and particularly, by controlling the number of allowed concurrent requests from an initiator. Load balancing is also provided in one embodiment, improving response times for requests, further easing the ability to provide QoS.

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