US Patent Issued to NetApp on April 21 for "Increasing provisioned storage capacity by means of growing underlying disks within a storage appliance" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,164, issued on April 21, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Increasing provisioned storage capacity by means of growing underlying disks within a storage appliance" was invented by Mrinal K. Bhattacharjee (Bangalore, India), Jagadish Vasudeva (Bangalore, India) and Sateesh Kumar Pola (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for supporting dynamic disk growth within a storage appliance are provided. According to one embodiment, a portion of a logical size of each of multiple disks (e.g., hyperscale disks or Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs)) are provisioned for use by a storage system as backing fo...