ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,218, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Metadata simulation" was invented by Kanuri Venkata Satyanarayana Swami (Bangalore, India), Steve Lathrop (Milford, Mass.) and Anoop Raghunathan (Ashland, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more aspects of the present disclosure relate to simulating an input/output (IO) workload. In embodiments, information corresponding to one or more characteristics of an input/output (IO) workload is received. In addition, metadata corresponding to the IO workload is generated using the information. Further, testing of a storage array can be enabled using the...