Method for storage management, electronic device and computer program product

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11269530-B2
Application number	US-202016936732-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 23, 2020
Priority date	Jan 15, 2020
Publication date	Mar 8, 2022
Grant date	Mar 8, 2022

Abstract

Techniques for storage management involve determining an independent redundant disk array RAID associated with a first set of storage disks, a first portion of storage blocks corresponding to the RAID being located in the first set of storage disks; determining, from the first set of storage disks, a plurality of storage disks corresponding to the RAID; and updating a set of association degrees of the first set of storage disks to indicate data coupling between storage disk pairs in the plurality of storage disks. Accordingly, the data coupling degree between storage disks can be determined more accurately.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method for storage management, comprising:
adding storage disks to a storage system already having multiple storage disks;
splitting the multiple storage disks and the added storage disks between a first set of storage disks and a second set of storage disks different from the first set of storage disks;
determining an independent redundant disk array RAID associated with the first set of storage disks, a first portion of storage blocks corresponding to the RAID being located in the first set of storage disks and a second portion of storage blocks corresponding to the RAID being located in the second set of storage disks;
determining, from the first set of storage disks, a plurality of storage disks corresponding to the RAID; and
updating a set of association degrees of the first set of storage disks to indicate data coupling between storage disk pair in the plurality of storage disks, said updating based on pairs of storage disks in the first set of storage disks but not based on any storage disks in the second set of storage disks.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the second set of storage disks maintaining a set of association degrees to indicate data coupling between storage disk pairs in a plurality of storage disks in the second set of storage disks.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising:
allocating, in the first set of storage disks, target storage blocks corresponding to the second portion;
causing data in the second portion to be moved to the target storage blocks; and
updating the RAID to associate with the target storage blocks.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:
determining a target storage disk corresponding to the target storage blocks; and
updating the set of association degrees to indicate data coupling between storage disk pair in the plurality of storage disks and the target storage disk.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein updating the set of association degrees comprises:
determining a number of storage blocks associated with the RAID contained in one of the plurality of storage disks; and
updating the set of association degrees based on the number.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein said updating, for each pair of storage disks in the first set of storage disks, is based on a number of storage blocks that the respective pair of storage disks has in common.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein a particular pair of storage disks includes a first storage disk in the first plurality of storage disks and a second storage disk in the second plurality of storage disks, the first storage disk and the second storage disk having at least one storage block in common but contributing no change to the set of association degrees of the first set of storage disks.

8. An electronic device, comprising:
at least one processing unit;
at least one memory coupled to the at least one processing unit and storing instructions for execution by the at least one processing unit, the instructions, when executed by the at least one processing unit, causing the device to perform acts comprising:
adding storage disks to a storage system already having multiple storage disks;
splitting the multiple storage disks and the added storage disks between a first set of storage disks and a second set of storage disks different from the first set of storage disks;
determining an independent redundant disk array RAID associated with the first set of storage disks, a first portion of storage blocks corresponding to the RAID being located in the first set of storage disks and a second portion of storage blocks corresponding to the RAID being located in the second set of storage disks;
determining, from the first set of storage disks, a plurality of storage disks corresponding to the RAID; and
updating a set of association degrees of the first set of storage disks to indicate data coupling between storage disk pair in the plurality of storage disks, said updating based on pairs of storage disks in the first set of storage disks but not based on any storage disks in the second set of storage disks.

9. The device of claim 8 , wherein the acts further comprise the second set of storage disks maintaining a set of association degrees to indicate data coupling between storage disk pair in a plurality of storage disks in the second set of storage disks.

10. The device of claim 9 , further comprising:
allocating, in the first set of storage disks, target storage blocks corresponding to the second portion;
causing data in the second portion to be moved to the target storage blocks; and
updating the RAID to associate with the target storage blocks.

11. The device of claim 10 , further comprising:
determining a target storage disk corresponding to the target storage blocks; and
updating the set of association degrees to indicate data coupling between storage disk pair in the plurality of storage disks and the target storage disk.

12. The device of claim 8 , wherein updating the set of association degrees comprises:
determining a number of storage blocks associated with the RAID contained in one of the plurality of storage disks; and
updating the set of association degrees based on the number.

13. A computer program product being tangibly stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium and comprising machine-executable instructions which, when executed by a device, cause the device to perform the acts, comprising:
adding storage disks to a storage system already having multiple storage disks;
splitting the multiple storage disks and the added storage disks between a first set of storage disks and a second set of storage disks different from the first set of storage disks;
determining an independent redundant disk array RAID associated with the first set of storage disks, a first portion of storage blocks corresponding to the RAID being located in the first set of storage disks and a second portion of storage blocks corresponding to the RAID being located in the second set of storage disks;
determining, from the first set of storage disks, a plurality of storage disks corresponding to the RAID; and
updating a set of association degrees of the first set of storage disks to indicate data coupling between storage disk pair in the plurality of storage disks, said updating based on pairs of storage disks in the first set of storage disks but not based on any storage disks in the second set of storage disks.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the acts further comprise the second set of storage disks maintaining a set of association degrees to indicate data coupling between storage disk pair in a plurality of storage disks in the second set of storage disks.

15. The computer program product of claim 14 , further comprising:
allocating, in the first set of storage disks, target storage blocks corresponding to the second portion;
causing data in the second portion to be moved to the target storage blocks; and
updating the RAID to associate with the target storage blocks.

16. The computer program product of claim 15 , further comprising:
determining a target storage disk corresponding to the target storage blocks; and
updating the set of association degrees to indicate data coupling between storage disk pair in the plurality of storage disks and the target storage disk.

17. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein updating the set of association degrees comprises:
determining a number of storage blocks associated with the RAID contained in one of the plurality of storage disks; and
updating

Assignees

• Emc Ip Holding Co Llc

Inventors

• Gao Jian
• Dong Jibing
• Han Geng
• Kang Jianbin
• Yang Lifeng

Classifications

• G06F3/0644

  Management of space entities, e.g. partitions, extents, pools · CPC title

• G06F3/0617 Primary

  in relation to availability · CPC title

• G06F11/187

  Voting techniques · CPC title

• G06F3/0689

  Disk arrays, e.g. RAID, JBOD · CPC title

• G06F3/064 Primary

  Management of blocks · CPC title