Patent ID: 9686171
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for attributing input/output statistics in storage area networks to region-mapped entities, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: receiving, from a virtualization layer that transforms virtualized input/output requests that are directed to a virtual disk into non-virtualized input/output requests that are directed to a volume within a storage area network, a non-virtualized input/output request to the volume within the storage area network, wherein: using, at the component within the storage area network through which the non-virtualized input/output request is routed to the volume, the address indicated by the non-virtualized input/output request to monitor an input/output statistic of the component that is caused by input/output requests to the region; querying the virtualization layer for information that indicates that a region-mapped entity is mapped to the region through one or more levels of abstraction; and reporting, based at least in part on determining that the region-mapped entity is mapped to the region through one or more levels of abstraction, the input/output statistic of the component as being caused by the region-mapped entity.