Netapp, Inc.

David Gilbert Roberts

Curtis E Hrischuk

Ulhas Pai

Kushagra Mittal

Purushottam Jha

Peter Adam Smith

Methods and systems for managing resources in a storage system are provided. The methods include tracking performance of a plurality of resources used for reading and writing information at storage devices in a networked storage system, each resource represented by a logical object in a hierarchical structure and performance data associated with each logical object is maintained by a processor executing a management application out of a memory device; identifying a root object associated with a resource having a performance issue as indicated by a threshold violation for the resource; selecting a related object associated with a resource similar to the resource of the root object by the management application for comparing performance data of the root object with the related object; and using the comparison to verify that the root object is a root cause of the performance issue.

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Winthrop, MA, United States of America

David Gilbert Roberts