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Volume management method and apparatus

  • US 7,624,232 B2
  • Filed: 03/13/2007
  • Issued: 11/24/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/15/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A volume management method for searching for an unoccupied area over a plurality of physical storage devices, to which at least one logical volume is assigned, said method comprising the steps of:

  • receiving an unoccupied-area-searching request;

    searching for an unoccupied area on condition that all present logical volumes, which have been already assigned to any of said storage devices, each still satisfies its information of requested average performance stored on a storage means for each of said present logical volumes which shares said any of said storage devices with the unoccupied area, assuming that a new logical volume occupies the unoccupied area; and

    displaying information of said unoccupied area including an average performance allowed for the supposed new logical volume.

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