Inventors:
- Hopkinton MA, US
Ashish A. Pancholi - Cary NC, US
David C. Waser - Holly Springs NC, US
Assignee:
EMC IP Holding Company LLC - Hopkinton MA
International Classification:
G06F 3/06
Abstract:
Determining drive configurations may include: receiving a data set including tier distributions for data storage systems; applying principal component analysis to the data set to generate a resulting data set having number of dimension in comparison to the data set; determining clusters using the resulting data set, wherein each cluster includes a portion of the tier distributions, wherein each cluster has an associated cluster tier distribution determined in accordance with the portion of the tier distributions in the cluster; selecting one of the clusters; and performing first processing that determines, in accordance with a storage capacity requirement and in accordance with a corresponding cluster tier distribution of the selected one cluster, a drive configuration.