Tiered storage system, storage controller, and tiering control method

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PATENT NO 9891828
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15206412

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According to one embodiment, a tiered storage system includes a first storage device, a second storage device and a storage controller. The first and second storage devices are positioned as an upper tier and a lower tier, respectively. The storage controller transfers data of q physical extents in the second storage device to q free physical extents in the first storage device, when an access request from a host computer designates access to one or more logical blocks including a first logical block, the first logical block is included in a first logical extent, and the first logical extent belongs to an extent group including q logical extents to which the q physical extents are allocated.

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TOSHIBA DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION72-34 HORIKAWA-CHO SAIWAI-KU KAWASAKI-SHI KANAGAWA 212-0013

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Hasegawa, Tomofumi Inagi, JP 3 14

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