Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automated on-line capacity expansion method for storage device
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Application No.: US12245122Application Date: 2008-10-03
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Publication No.: US07930474B2Publication Date: 2011-04-19
- Inventor: Yoshiki Kano , Manabu Kitamura , Kouji Arai
- Applicant: Yoshiki Kano , Manabu Kitamura , Kouji Arai
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.
- Priority: JP2001-204305 20010705
- Main IPC: G06F12/00
- IPC: G06F12/00

Abstract:
A volume provider unit in a computer system that detects a logical block address of a read or write I/O accessing a logical volume of a storage device from a host. According to the logical block address fetched, a storage domain of the logical volume is dynamically expanded. Moreover, the storage domain of the logical volume is reduced or expanded according to an instruction of logical volume capacity reduction or expansion from a host commander part to a volume server.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090043982A1 AUTOMATED ON-LINE CAPACITY EXPANSION METHOD FOR STORAGE DEVICE Public/Granted day:2009-02-12
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