US 11,947,805 B2
Load balancing using storage system driven host connectivity management
Adnan Sahin, Needham, MA (US); Rivka Mayraz Matosevich, Zichron Ya'acov (IL); Mark J. Halstead, Holliston, MA (US); and Ziv Dor, Rishon Letzion (IL)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Apr. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/728,606.
Prior Publication US 2023/0342037 A1, Oct. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0613 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
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;
wherein monitoring the I/O workload across the resources of the storage system comprises monitoring at least one or more of (i) I/O operations per second, (ii) I/O bandwidth, and (iii) I/O response time, across at least one of ports and controllers of the storage system.