Patents by Inventor Vinay G. Gadekar

Vinay G. Gadekar has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Logically Extended Virtual Disk
    Publication number: 20130227345
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided for provisioning and allocating logically extended virtual disks. Responsive to an identification of a negative operational issue with a storage device in a plurality of storage devices in a storage subsystem, a determination is made as to whether a hot spare disk is available to replace the storage device. Responsive to the hot spare disk being unavailable, a logically extended virtual disk is allocated as a replacement for the storage device. Data stored on the storage device is then rebuilt on the logically extended virtual disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vinay G. Gadekar, Janmejay S. Kulkarni, Sarvesh S. Patel, Ashish R. Pathak