A method begins by identifying a plurality of encoded data slices requiring rebuilding. The method continues by determining an amount of memory required for rebuilding the plurality of encoded data slices and allocating memory in one or more storage units for the rebuilding the plurality of encoded data slices as reserve memory. The method continues by obtaining a plurality of rebuilt encoded data slices associated with the plurality of encoded data slices requiring rebuilding and storing the plurality of rebuilt encoded data slices in the reserve memory.

A hosted secrets management transport system and method for managing secrets at one or more offsite locations that facilitates secret flow, secret retrieval, and secret replication. The method includes defining boundaries for two or more sovereignties, each sovereignty having an independent master record and each sovereignty including two or more regions; defining a primary region within the two or more regions; accessing, within the primary region, a master record hardware security module that is a primary source of secrets; defining a second region; accessing, within the second region, a backup record hardware security module that is where data backups of the secrets from the master record hardware security module are created; and executing live replication from the master record hardware security module to the backup record hardware security module in which the live replication that supports multi-tenancy secret management of multiple distinct companies at the same time.

Techniques are used for balancing load on a storage system according to multiple variables. The techniques may be used to provide, among other things, defining, across at least two variables, a balance constraint for a load on a storage system. Among a set of transfers of volumes from one node to another node in the storage system, a transfer of a volume that minimizes the distance between the load and an ideal balanced state of the storage system is identified. The identified transfer of a volume is added to a combination of transfers of volumes. Whether the combination of transfers of volumes meets the balance constraint is determined. If the combination meets the balance constraint, the combination is selected as a solution to balance the load.

A RAID controller attached to a storage network can detect the presence of multiple pathways to the same physical storage device. A path collection module can dynamically maintain all valid pathways to all attached storage devices. A path selection module can automatically and dynamically balance and rebalance desired paths to each storage device so as to simultaneously optimize data flow and provide continuity of I/O service throughout the attached storage network.

Provided is a method of packet processing, the method including receiving an input/output (IO) request from a host, selecting a drive corresponding to the IO request using a hashing algorithm or a round-robin technique, and establishing a connection between the host and the drive.

Scale-out of a controller and application migration consider the application status, laws and rules of a scale-out destination, and a resource usage status. If an operation status exceeds a threshold value, an administrative server for a computer system of a storage system calculates a first index for each execution target, including an application, a virtual machine, or a container operating in the computer system, based on information about cost, credibility, or performance when the execution target is migrated to, and caused to operate in, another computer system, and indexing information indicating laws or rules applied to the computer system using indexes. A second index indicating, as a dimensionless quantity, the selection degree of another computer system as a migration destination of the execution target is acquired. A migration destination of the execution target is decided from among other computer systems based on the first index and/or the second index.

A system is described. The system includes a processing resource and a non-transitory computer-readable medium, coupled to the processing resource, having stored therein instructions that when executed by the processing resource cause the processing resource to collect telemetry data of a distributed storage system associated with a client device, monitor a first set of the IOPS values, select a first IOPS value in the first set of the IOPS values as a highest IOPS value, determine whether the first IOPS value is unequal to a current Max-IOPS parameter value and adjust the Max-IOPS parameter value to be equal to the first IOPS value upon a determination that the first IOPS value is unequal to the current Max-IOPS parameter value.

A storage system determines source addresses, and destination addresses in a storage system, for network traffic. The storage system determines a hash algorithm, from a plurality of hash algorithms. The hash algorithm is to be used across the source addresses for load-balancing the network traffic to the destination addresses. The storage system determines that the hash algorithm more closely meets one or more load-balancing criteria than at least one other hash algorithm, of the plurality of hash algorithms. The storage system distributes the network traffic from the source addresses to the destination addresses in the storage system, with load-balancing according to the determined hash algorithm.

Embodiments of the claimed subject matter are directed to methods and a system that allows an application comprising a single code set under the COBOL Programming Language to execute in multiple platforms on the same multi-platform system (such as a mainframe). In one embodiment, a single code set is pre-compiled to determine specific portions of the code set compatible with the host (or prospective) platform. Once the code set has been pre-compiled to determine compatible portions, those portions may be compiled and executed in the host platform. According to these embodiments, an application may be executed from a single code set that is compatible with multiple platforms, thereby potentially reducing the complexity of developing the application for multiple platforms.

A mechanism is provided for optimizing object storage workflow. A category of a computational algorithm received from a user of a client device is identified, the category identifying a set of storage area network (SAN) features that are optimal for executing the computational algorithm. Features associated with a plurality of nodes in a plurality of infrastructures in an object storage architecture are searched for at least one node that has the set of features identified by the category of the computational algorithm. Responsive to identifying a node that has the set of features identified by the category of the computational algorithm, a determination is made as to whether resources associated with the node are immediately available. Responsive to the resources associated with the node being immediately available, the computational algorithm is issued to the node for execution.