Patent ID: 8112605
Filing Date: 2012-02-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of load balancing components to in a hierarchical storage system, wherein the hierarchical storage system includes a master storage manager component and multiple storage operation cells hierarchically subordinate to the master storage manager component, and wherein the method is performed by a computing system having a processor and memory, the method comprising: determining a number of job failures considered a fault occurrence; accessing information relating to operation of the hierarchical storage system, wherein the hierarchical storage system includes analyzing, by the computing system, the information relating to operation of the plurality of media agent components wherein the analyzing includes at least analyzing a trend in usage of the first and second plurality of media agent components; based at least in part on the trend in usage of the first and second plurality of media agent components, automatically load balancing the different media agent components in the first and second plurality of media agent components.