Workload balancing in a distributed storage system

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PATENT NO 10241725
APP PUB NO 20170123661A1
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14927581

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As disclosed herein a method, executed by a computer, includes analyzing historical I/O data, corresponding to one or more applications, to determine an expected available bandwidth for a plurality of storage devices of a distributed storage system, and generating a data retrieval plan for the plurality of storage devices storage devices based on a historical I/O access pattern and according to the expected available bandwidth for the plurality of storage devices. The method further includes accessing data for a backend computational job from the plurality of storage devices according to the data retrieval plan, and throttling I/O throughput for the backend computational job according to the expected available bandwidth for the plurality of storage devices. A computer system and computer program product corresponding to the above method are also disclosed herein.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION

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Chen, Lei Shanghai, CN 853 3454
Hu, Yue Shanghai, CN 67 246
Zhang, Jun Wei Shanghai, CN 31 208

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