Patent ID: 11914875
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein allocating the two or more storage workloads in the identified set of storage workloads to the plurality of storage devices of the storage system based at least in part on the calculated affinity metric further comprises, responsive to determining that the second component of the calculated affinity metric exceeds the designated threshold and the first component of the calculated affinity metric indicates that the mix of input/output patterns provides the performance increase, modifying the existing allocation of the two or more storage workloads in the identified set of storage workloads to allocate the two or more storage workloads in the identified set of storage workloads to a same subset of the plurality of storage devices of the storage system.