Pure Storage, Inc.
Using estimated efficiency models to select a processing unit in a distributed storage network

Abstract:

A method for execution by a computing device of a dispersed or distributed storage network begins or continues by, for a data access request, accessing a plurality of estimated efficiency models of a plurality of processing units of the storage network, where an estimated efficiency model of the plurality of estimated efficiency models includes a list of estimated efficiency probabilities, and the list of estimated efficiency probabilities corresponds to a list of data access request types for a processing unit of the plurality of processing units. The method continues by selecting one of the processing units from the plurality of processing units based on the plurality of estimated efficiency models to produce a selected processing unit. The method continues by sending the data access request to the selected processing unit for execution.