Patent ID: 9395932
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A storage system, comprising: a plurality of physical drives grouped into a plurality of stripe sets, wherein each stripe set has an equal number of physical drives, a blade server operable to create a first virtual drive, wherein the blade server is operable to determine a common storage space size based on a smallest storage space size of a first of the plurality of physical drives in the storage system, to establish a storage space size of the first virtual drive that is less than the common storage space multiplied by a number of physical drives in the storage system, and to map the first virtual drive to a first of the stripe sets; wherein the blade server is further operable to create a second virtual drive having a same storage space size of the first virtual drive, and to determine a remaining storage space size of the first stripe set, and wherein, if the remaining storage space size of the first stripe set is greater than zero bytes, the blade server is further operable to map at least a portion of the second virtual drive to the first stripe set, otherwise the blade server is further operable to map the second virtual drive to a second of the stripe sets.