Apparatus, method, and recording medium storing a program for selecting a destination storage based on a buffer size

US8935501B2 · US · B2

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Publication numberUS-8935501-B2
Application numberUS-201213546669-A
CountryUS
Kind codeB2
Filing dateJul 11, 2012
Priority dateSep 26, 2011
Publication dateJan 13, 2015
Grant dateJan 13, 2015

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A control method includes allocating a plurality of virtual disks to a virtual storage allocated to a physical storage, associating data with one of the plurality of virtual disks which has been instructed to store the data and storing the data in the physical storage, and selecting, by a processor, one of the plurality of virtual disks as a data movement target virtual disk from which data is to be moved in accordance with a network bandwidth of the physical storage corresponding to the virtual storage when free space in the virtual storage exceeds a threshold value.

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What is claimed is: 1. A control method comprising: allocating a plurality of virtual disks to a virtual storage allocated to a physical storage; associating data with one of the plurality of virtual disks which has been instructed to store the data and storing the data in the physical storage; calculating an available buffer size of a write buffer; and selecting, by a processor, one of the plurality of virtual disks as a data movement target virtual disk from which data is…

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What does patent US8935501B2 cover?
A control method includes allocating a plurality of virtual disks to a virtual storage allocated to a physical storage, associating data with one of the plurality of virtual disks which has been instructed to store the data and storing the data in the physical storage, and selecting, by a processor, one of the plurality of virtual disks as a data movement target virtual disk from which data is …
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Shigeta Soichi, Fujitsu Ltd
What technology area does this patent fall under?
Primary CPC classification G06F3/0608. Mapped technology areas include Physics.
When was this patent published?
Publication date Tue Jan 13 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) (B2). Legal status and post-grant events are not shown on this page.
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