ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,030, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Green disk array enclosure" was invented by Owen Martin (Hopedale, Mass.) and Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use in a storage system, comprising: instantiating a plurality of virtual storage devices, each virtual storage device corresponding to a different respective group of physical storage devices; assigning one or more of the plurality of virtual storage devices to a landing zone and assigning the rest of the plurality of virtual storage devices to an idle zone; instantiating a data volume, the data vo...