Bryan R Langston

US Patent:

20110072118, Mar 24, 2011

Filed:

Sep 24, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/566526

Inventors:

John C. Day - Gilroy CA, US
Jeffrey A. Kusnitz - Campbell CA, US
Bryan S. Langston - Firestone CO, US
John T. Timm - San Jose CA, US

Assignee:

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 15/177

US Classification:

709222

Abstract:

A computer-implemented method for configuring an operating system to associate a peripheral is described. The method includes loading the operating system on a client computer based on an operating system image, determining an identifier of the client computer, retrieving peripheral information to identify a peripheral associated with the client computer, and writing a configuration setting of the client computer to a storage medium of the client computer based on the peripheral information. The identifier identifies the client computer. The peripheral information is associated with the client computer based on an association between the peripheral information and the identifier.

US Patent:

20180165033, Jun 14, 2018

Filed:

Dec 13, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/377614

Inventors:

- Armonk NY, US
Paul Lawrence Bradshaw - Santa Cruz CA, US
Divyesh Jadav - San Jose CA, US
Bryan Steward Langston - Herriman UT, US
Nagapramod S. Mandagere - San Jose CA, US
Aameek Singh - University Place WA, US

International Classification:

G06F 3/06

Abstract:

One embodiment provides a method, including: generating, for each of a plurality of storage volumes, an actual used storage capacity model and identifying a potential storage capacity savings using the actual used capacity model, wherein each of the plurality of storage volumes has been identified as a candidate for migration to a thin provisioned volume; generating, for each of the plurality of storage volumes, an input/output profile model and identifying a potential change in performance of an application accessing the storage volume using the input/output profile model; generating, for each of the plurality of storage volumes, a growth profile and identifying a potential change in capacity using the growth profile; and determining, using an optimization algorithm, a subset of the plurality of storage volumes to be migrated to thin provisioned volumes based upon the volume capacity model, the performance model, and the volume growth profile.