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SELECTION OF FABRIC-ATTACHED STORAGE DRIVES ON WHICH TO PROVISION DRIVE VOLUMES FOR REALIZING LOGICAL VOLUME ON CLIENT COMPUTING DEVICE WITHIN STORAGE AREA NETWORK

  • US 20180150244A1
  • Filed: 11/30/2016
  • Published: 05/31/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving, by a storage-area network (SAN) manager running on a computing device directly connected to a fabric, a request from an administrator to allocate and mount a logical volume on a client computing device directly connected to the fabric;

    grouping, by the SAN manager, storage drives directly connected to the fabric by failure domains in which the storage drives are located;

    filtering, by the SAN manager, the storage drives by native capabilities, available capacities, and dynamic performance thereof to remove from selection consideration any storage drive having one or more of insufficient native capabilities, an insufficient available capacity, or an insufficient dynamic performance to satisfy the request;

    selecting, by the SAN manager, a set of storage drives on which to store data of the logical volume, from the storage drives that remain for the selection consideration after the storage drives have been filtered, including taking into account the failure domains in which the storage drives of the set are located in satisfaction of the request;

    sending, by the SAN manager, a command to each storage drive of the selected set to provision a drive volume; and

    sending, by the SAN manager, a command to a SAN software agent on the client computing device to create and mount the logical volume using the drive volumes provisioned on the storage drives of the set.

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