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SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND METHOD SUPPORTING ASYMMETRICAL BLOCK-LEVEL REDUNDANT STORAGE

  • US 20120198152A1
  • Filed: 02/01/2012
  • Published: 08/02/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2011
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of managing storage of blocks of data from a host computer in a block-level storage system having a storage controller in communication with a plurality of block storage devices, the method comprising:

  • automatically determining, by the storage controller, performance characteristics associated with at least one region of each block storage device; and

    creating a plurality of redundancy zones from regions of the block storage devices, where at least one of the redundancy zones is a hybrid zone including at least two regions having different but complementary performance characteristics selected by the storage controller from different block storage devices based on a predetermined performance level selected for the zone by the storage controller.

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