ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,523, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"System and method for rebalancing data after storage pool expansion" was invented by Geng Han (Beijing), Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Baote Zhuo (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for detecting the addition of a new storage device to a storage pool. A rebalancing target is generated for the storage pool by simulating an initial layout of used data slices and reserved data slices into a plurality of data slice stripes. It is determined whether the plurality of storage devices of the ...