BACKGROUND

Field of the Disclosure

This disclosure relates generally to information handling systems and more particularly to wear leveling information handling systems of a storage cluster.

Description of the Related Art

As the value and use of information continues to increase, individuals and businesses seek additional ways to process and store information. One option available to users is information handling systems. An information handling system generally processes, compiles, stores, and/or communicates information or data for business, personal, or other purposes thereby allowing users to take advantage of the value of the information. Because technology and information handling needs and requirements vary between different users or applications, information handling systems may also vary regarding what information is handled, how the information is handled, how much information is processed, stored, or communicated, and how quickly and efficiently the information may be processed, stored, or communicated. The variations in information handling systems allow for information handling systems to be general or configured for a specific user or specific use such as financial transaction processing, airline reservations, enterprise data storage, or global communications. In addition, information handling systems may include a variety of hardware and software components that may be configured to process, store, and communicate information and may include one or more computer systems, data storage systems, and networking systems.

SUMMARY

In one or more embodiments, for each information handling system of a storage cluster of multiple information handling systems, a request for multiple inventory information respectively associated with multiple storage media layers of the information handling system to the information handling system may be provided by a management console associated with the cluster. In one or more embodiments, for each information handling system of the storage cluster: a baseboard management controller of the information handling system may determine multiple inventory information respectively associated with multiple storage media layers of the information handling system and may provide the multiple inventory information to the management console.

In one or more embodiments, the management console may: receive performance information for a base workload from an information handling system associated with a vendor information handling system associated with at least one storage media component of the storage cluster; determine multiple threshold values of the multiple storage media layers of each information handling system of the cluster based at least on the performance information for the base workload and the multiple inventory information respectively associated with the multiple storage media layers of each information handling system of the storage cluster; receive multiple condition values respectively associated with the multiple storage media layers of a specific information handling system of the storage cluster; and determine that a condition value of the multiple condition values associated with a storage media layer of the multiple storage media layers is at or below a threshold value of the multiple threshold values associated with the storage media layer of the multiple storage media layers. In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more processes may reduce a storage workload of the specific information handling system of the storage cluster. For example, reducing a storage workload of the information handling system of the storage cluster may be performed in response to determining that the condition value associated with the storage media is at or below the threshold value associated with the storage media layer.

In one or more embodiments, reducing the storage workload of the specific information handling system of the storage cluster may include reducing a storage I/O data rate associated with the specific information handling system of the storage cluster. For example, after reducing the storage workload of the specific information handling system of the storage cluster, storage workloads of all other information handling systems of the storage cluster may be reduced. For example, after reducing storage workloads of all other information handling systems of the storage cluster, the storage workload of the specific information handling system of the storage cluster may be increased. In one or more embodiments, reducing the storage workload of the specific information handling system of the storage cluster may include reducing the storage workload of the specific information handling system of the storage cluster from a first storage I/O data rate to a second storage I/O data rate. For example, increasing the storage workload of the specific information handling system of the storage cluster may include increasing the storage workload of the specific information handling system of the storage cluster to the first storage I/O data rate.

In one or more embodiments, a first storage media layer of the multiple storage media layers may be associated with a first I/O data rate, a second storage media layer of the multiple storage media layers may be associated with a second I/O data rate, and a third storage media layer of the multiple storage media layers may be associated with a third I/O data rate. For example, the first I/O data rate may be greater than or equal to the second I/O data rate, and the second I/O data rate may be greater than or equal to the third I/O data rate. For instance, the first storage media may include volatile memory media, and the second storage media include non-volatile memory media. In one or more embodiments, the volatile memory media may include random access memory, and the non-volatile memory media may include at least one solid state drive. For example, the third storage media may include at least one magnetic media hard drive. In one or more embodiments, the information handling systems of the storage cluster may be coupled to a network.

