Techniques for binding resources for use by a consumer tier

Described are techniques for configuring resources of a data storage system. A definition for each of one or more tiers is provided. Each of the tiers corresponds to a different class of consumer of data storage system resources and has a different corresponding definition including a set of one or...

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Main Author BARTA DAVID
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 14.02.2012
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:Described are techniques for configuring resources of a data storage system. A definition for each of one or more tiers is provided. Each of the tiers corresponds to a different class of consumer of data storage system resources and has a different corresponding definition including a set of one or more clauses and a priority of each clause in said set relative to other clauses in said set. Each of the clauses in the set is one of a plurality of predefined types of clauses. One or more data storage consumers are associated with each tier. A first set of data storage system resources is associated with a first of said one or more tiers in accordance with a corresponding first definition for said first tier. The first set is used when processing storage provisioning requests and I/O requests for data storage consumers associated with the first tier.
Bibliography:Application Number: US20080286226