发明名称 STORAGE SYSTEM
摘要 A storage control apparatus performs, for each virtual area to which a physical area is allocated, any one of coarse-grained management for managing a correspondence relationship between a virtual area and a physical area in a first size unit, and fine-grained management for managing a correspondence relationship between a virtual area and a physical area in a second size unit smaller than the first size unit. The storage control apparatus manages mapping information that expresses a correspondence relationship between a virtual area and a physical area. The storage control apparatus performs at least one of change of any of fine-grained virtual areas to a coarse-grained virtual area and change of any of coarse-grained virtual areas to a fine-grained virtual area, based on the number of duplication areas of each virtual area and a size of the mapping information.
申请公布号 US2015363129(A1) 申请公布日期 2015.12.17
申请号 US201314762955 申请日期 2013.11.07
申请人 Hitachi, Ltd. 发明人 WATANABE Yasuo;SHIMOZONO Norio
分类号 G06F3/06 主分类号 G06F3/06
代理机构 代理人
主权项 1. A storage system comprising: a plurality of physical storage devices which become a basis of a pool as a physical storage area; and a storage control apparatus that is coupled to the plurality of physical storage devices, and is configured to provide a virtual volume as a virtual logical volume to a host computer, to allocate a physical area from the pool to a virtual area to which a write destination of the virtual volume belongs, and to write data of a write target to the allocated physical area, wherein the storage control apparatus performs, for each virtual area to which a physical area is allocated, any one of coarse-granularity management for managing a correspondence relationship between a virtual area and a physical area in a first size unit, and fine-granularity management for managing a correspondence relationship between a virtual area and a physical area in a second size unit smaller than the first size unit, the storage control apparatus is configured to manage mapping information that expresses a correspondence relationship between a virtual area and a physical area, the storage control apparatus is configured to perform at least one of change of fine-granularity virtual area to coarse-granularity virtual area sequentially from a fine-granularity virtual area in which the number of duplication areas is smaller, and change of coarse-granularity virtual area to fine-granularity virtual area sequentially from a coarse-granularity virtual area in which the number of duplication areas is larger, based on the number of duplication areas of each virtual area and a size of the mapping information, the duplication area of the virtual area is an area where data that are present in a physical area allocated to the virtual area and are duplicated are stored, the coarse-granularity virtual area is a virtual area for which the coarse-granularity management is performed, and the fine-granularity area is a virtual area for which the fine-granularity management is performed.
地址 Tokyo JP