Patent ID: 11947799
Assignee: AMZETTA TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon for performing TRIM operations with a distributed volume management (DVM) module that, when executed by a processing unit of a storage system computer, cause the processing unit to:
allocate a logical volume from physical storage comprising a solid state drive (SSD), wherein the storage system computer and the physical storage are operably connected over a network;
subdivide the logical volume into a plurality of logical blocks;
maintain a mapping table for tracking the logical blocks of the logical volume;
determine input/output (I/O) load of a storage system; and
in response to a predetermined event, execute a TRIM command for one or more unused data blocks of the SSD over the network, wherein the TRIM command is executed when the I/O load is less than a threshold.