US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 14 for "Virtual volume placement based on activity level" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,741, issued on July 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Virtual volume placement based on activity level" was invented by Huijuan Fan (Chengdu, China) and Bob Yan (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for placement of virtual volumes based on activity levels are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining a request to create a new virtual volume on a storage cluster comprising a plurality of storage nodes; determining a total activity level for each of a plurality of storage nodes of the storage cluster in response ...