Method for storage management, device and computer program product

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11513712-B2
Application number	US-202016991472-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 12, 2020
Priority date	Apr 30, 2020
Publication date	Nov 29, 2022
Grant date	Nov 29, 2022

Abstract

Techniques for storage management involve: determining expected usage time of a first storage disk in a set of storage disks, at least a part of the set of storage disks being configured to form at least one redundant array of independent disks (RAID); moving data in a first storage block, associated with a first RAID in the at least one RAID, in the first storage disk to a second storage block in a second storage disk in the set of storage disks based on a determination that the expected usage time is less than a predetermined threshold value; and replacing the first storage block with the second storage block, so that the second storage block is associated with the first RAID. Based on this manner, the stability of a storage system can be improved.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A storage management method, comprising:
determining expected usage time of a first storage disk in a set of storage disks, at least a part of the set of storage disks being configured to form at least one redundant array of independent disks (RAID);
moving data in a first storage block, associated with a first RAID in the at least one RAID, in the first storage disk to a second storage block in a second storage disk in the set of storage disks based on a determination that the expected usage time is less than a predetermined threshold value; and
replacing the first storage block with the second storage block, so that the second storage block is associated with the first RAID;
wherein moving the data in the first storage block to the second storage block in the second storage disk comprises:
allocating the second storage block in a reserved space of the second storage disk based on a determination that the first storage disk does not fail; and
moving the data in the first storage block to the second storage block.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the expected usage time of the first storage disk in the set of storage disks comprises:
determining used time and a degree of wear of the first storage disk; and
determining the expected usage time based on the used time and the degree of wear.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
preventing allocation of a new storage block at the first storage disk.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
performing, in response to receiving an IO request for the first storage disk, an operation corresponding to the IO request at the first storage disk and the second storage disk at the same time.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
marking the first storage disk as invalid based on a determination that storage blocks in the first storage disk have all been replaced with corresponding storage blocks.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining expected usage time includes:
calculating the expected usage time at a predetermined rate; and
in response to the expected usage time being below a second predetermined threshold, adjusting the predetermined rate.

7. A storage management method, comprising:
determining expected usage time of a first storage disk in a set of storage disks, at least a part of the set of storage disks being configured to form at least one redundant array of independent disks (RAID);
moving data in a first storage block, associated with a first RAID in the at least one RAID, in the first storage disk to a second storage block in a second storage disk in the set of storage disks based on a determination that the expected usage time is less than a predetermined threshold value; and
replacing the first storage block with the second storage block, so that the second storage block is associated with the first RAID;

wherein moving the data in the first storage block to the second storage block comprises:
reconstructing the data in the first storage block by utilizing a storage block associated with the first storage block based on a determination that the first storage disk fails; and
storing the reconstructed data to the second storage block.

8. An electronic device, comprising:
at least one processing unit; and
at least one memory coupled to the at least one processing unit and storing instructions for execution by the at least one processing unit, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processing unit, cause the device to perform actions, and the actions comprise:
determining expected usage time of a first storage disk in a set of storage disks, at least a part of the set of storage disks being configured to form at least one RAID;
moving data in a first storage block, associated with a first RAID in the at least one RAID, in the first storage disk to a second storage block in a second storage disk in the set of storage disks based on a determination that the expected usage time is less than a predetermined threshold value; and
replacing the first storage block with the second storage block, so that the second storage block is associated with the first RAID;

wherein moving the data in the first storage block to the second storage block in the second storage disk comprises:
allocating the second storage block in a reserved space of the second storage disk based on a determination that the first storage disk does not fail; and
moving the data in the first storage block to the second storage block.

9. The electronic device of claim 8 , wherein determining the expected usage time of the first storage disk in the set of storage disks comprises:
determining used time and a degree of wear of the first storage disk; and
determining the expected usage time based on the used time and the degree of wear.

10. The electronic device of claim 8 , wherein the actions further comprise:
preventing allocation of a new storage block at the first storage disk.

11. The electronic device of claim 8 , wherein the actions further comprise:
performing, in response to receiving an IO request for the first storage disk, an operation corresponding to the IO request at the first storage disk and the second storage disk at the same time.

12. The electronic device of claim 8 , wherein the actions further comprise:
marking the first storage disk as invalid based on a determination that storage blocks in the first storage disk have all been replaced with corresponding storage blocks.

13. An electronic device, comprising:
at least one processing unit; and
at least one memory coupled to the at least one processing unit and storing instructions for execution by the at least one processing unit, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processing unit, cause the device to perform actions, and the actions comprise:
determining expected usage time of a first storage disk in a set of storage disks, at least a part of the set of storage disks being configured to form at least one RAID;
moving data in a first storage block, associated with a first RAID in the at least one RAID, in the first storage disk to a second storage block in a second storage disk in the set of storage disks based on a determination that the expected usage time is less than a predetermined threshold value; and
replacing the first storage block with the second storage block, so that the second storage block is associated with the first RAID;

wherein moving the data in the first storage block to the second storage block comprises:
reconstructing the data in the first storage block by utilizing a storage block associated with the first storage block based on a determination that the first storage disk fails; and
storing the reconstructed data to the second storage block.

14. A computer program product having a non-transitory computer readable medium which stores a set of instructions to perform storage management; the set of instructions, when carried out by computerized circuitry, causing the computerized circuitry to perform a method of:
determining expected usage time of a first storage disk in a set of storage disks, at least a part of the set of storage disks being configured to form at least one redundant array of independent disks (RAID);
moving data in a first storage block, associated with a first RAID in the at least one RAID, in the first storage disk to a second storage block in a second storage disk in the set of storage disks based on a determination that the expected usage time is less than a predetermined threshold value; and
replacing the first storage block with

Assignees

• Emc Ip Holding Co Llc

Inventors

• Kang Jianbin
• Han Geng
• Dong Jibing
• Gao Hongpo

Classifications

• G06F3/0689

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

• G06F3/0619

  in relation to data integrity, e.g. data losses, bit errors · CPC title

• G06F3/0653

  Monitoring storage devices or systems · CPC title

• G06F3/064

  Management of blocks · CPC title

• G06F11/2094

  Redundant storage or storage space (G06F11/2056 takes precedence) · CPC title