US Patent Application 17728606. LOAD BALANCING USING STORAGE SYSTEM DRIVEN HOST CONNECTIVITY MANAGEMENT simplified abstract
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LOAD BALANCING USING STORAGE SYSTEM DRIVEN HOST CONNECTIVITY MANAGEMENT
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Inventor(s)
Adnan Sahin of Needham MA (US)
Rivka Mayraz Matosevich of Zichron Ya'acov (IL)
Mark J. Halstead of Holliston MA (US)
Ziv Dor of Rishon Letzion (IL)
LOAD BALANCING USING STORAGE SYSTEM DRIVEN HOST CONNECTIVITY MANAGEMENT - A simplified explanation of the abstract
- This abstract for appeared for US patent application number 17728606 Titled 'LOAD BALANCING USING STORAGE SYSTEM DRIVEN HOST CONNECTIVITY MANAGEMENT'
Simplified Explanation
The abstract describes a technique for load balancing in a storage system. It involves monitoring the distribution of input/output workload across the resources of the storage system. If an imbalance is detected, updated connection information is generated for a host system connected to the storage system. A request is then sent to the host system to discover the updated connection information for connecting to the storage system based on the updates.
Original Abstract Submitted
Techniques are provided for load balancing in a storage system using a storage system-driven host connectivity management process. For example, a load balancing process comprises monitoring a distribution of input/output (I/O) workload across resources of a storage system to detect for an occurrence of an I/O workload imbalance, generating updated connection information for a host system connected to the storage system, in response to detecting the occurrence of an I/O workload imbalance, and sending a request to the host system to discover the updated connection information for connecting to the storage system based on the updated connection information.
