Extent migration in multi-tier storage systems

SV Karve, KS Patel, SS Patel - US Patent 10,168,946, 2019 - Google Patents
Migrating data in a tiered storage system. The tiered storage system includes an upper tier
with at least one storage device and a lower tier with at least one storage device. Data on a …

Performing a recovery copy command to create a recovery volume for a consistency group

GE McBride, NY Francisco, TM Brown… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
Provided are techniques for performing a recovery copy command to create a recovery
volume for a consistency group. In response to receiving a recovery copy command, a …

Extent migration in multi-tier storage systems

SV Karve, KS Patel, SS Patel - US Patent 10,540,113, 2020 - Google Patents
Migrating data in a tiered storage system. The tiered storage system includes an upper tier
with at least one storage device and a lower tier with at least one storage device. Data on a …

Management of backup volume extents via a tiered storage mechanism

CA Hardy, NM Clayton, Y Liu, G Spear - US Patent 11,175,999, 2021 - Google Patents
A determination is made that a point-in-time copy of a consistency group of a production
volume has to be stored in a backup storage that is configured to store a plurality of point-in …

Extent migration in multi-tier storage systems

SV Karve, KS Patel, SS Patel - US Patent 11,073,999, 2021 - Google Patents
Migrating data in a tiered storage system. The tiered storage system includes an upper tier
with at least one storage device and a lower tier with at least one storage device. Data on a …

Workload amplification metering and management

AT Kataria, P Viraraghavan, MA Gaertner - US Patent 11,934,673, 2024 - Google Patents
A data storage device includes at least one data storage medium. The data storage device
also includes a workload rating associated with data access operations carried out on the at …

Enhanced application performance using storage system optimization

GP Szczepanik, KS Patel, SS Patel… - US Patent 11,726,692, 2023 - Google Patents
A method, a computer system, and a computer program product for tiering migration for
storage system optimization is provided. Embodiments of the present invention may include …

Copying point-in-time data in a storage to a point-in-time copy data location in advance of destaging data to the storage

TM Brown, K Lin, D Fei, NY Francisco - US Patent 10,754,730, 2020 - Google Patents
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for copying point-in-time
data in a storage to a point-in-time copy data location in advance of destaging data to the …

Metadata track entry sorting in a data storage system

TM Brown, D Fei, GE McBride - US Patent 11,604,590, 2023 - Google Patents
In one aspect of metadata track entry sorting in accordance with the present description,
recovery logic sorts a list of metadata entries as a function of a source data track iden …

Aggregation of updated tracks to be copied to a backup volume for physically contiguous storage on a RAID stride

TM Brown, K Lin, FEI Dave, G Spear, CA Hardy… - US Patent …, 2020 - Google Patents
A plurality of tracks that are to be copied to a backup volume are aggregated in a container
data structure. The plurality of tracks are stored physically contiguously in a single …