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US 12,615,203 B2Granted
Multipath weighting using metrics from one or more protocols
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorIgor Achkinazi
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AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorIgor Achkinazi
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Embodiments herein comprise obtaining states of network links of paths from an initiator (e.g., host) to a target (e.g., storage subsystem) to determine weight factors for the paths in a multipath scenario between the initiator and the target. Given the weight factors, they may be used with an NVMe initiator implementation of a multipath weight/load-balancing methodology or system to distribute workloads (e.g., IO tasks/requests) across the paths of the set of paths in the multipath. In one or more embodiments, each state may have a metric associated with it, which may act as a cost or be used to determine/assign a cost to the corresponding link. In one or more embodiments, one or more additional rules may be set for converting metrics to costs, costs and/or metrics to weights, and/or for distributing the workloads.
A processor-implemented method comprising:
An information handling system comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium or media comprising one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, causes steps to be performed comprising:
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