US 11,747,993 B2
Out of band disk performance monitoring to maintain software defined storage performance
Harry Richardson, Lamarsh (GB)
Assigned to SOFTIRON LIMITED, London (GB)
Filed by SOFTIRON LIMITED, Chilworth (GB)
Filed on Aug. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/459,244.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/071,939, filed on Aug. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0066654 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0619 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 11/3034 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An article of manufacture, comprising a non-transitory machine- readable medium including instructions, the instructions, when loaded and executed by a processor, configure the processor to, from an operating system:
determine that a software defined storage (SDS) application installed in the operating system is configured to access a first disk, the first disk including an SDS partition;
determine that the first disk is to be monitored for performance;
access a monitoring partition on the first disk, the monitoring partition inaccessible to the SDS application;
write test data to the monitoring partition; and
validate the test data written to the monitoring partition.