International Business Machines Corporation

Kaisar R Hossain

Yan Xu

Yong Guo

Jun Tao Li

In one embodiment, a method for managing data includes collecting workload information for a data storage device in a data storage system over a period of time. A peak workload of the data storage device for the period of time is determined. A maximum workload threshold for the data storage device in the data storage system over the period of time is also determined. Movement of additional workload to the device in the data storage system is prevented during a subsequent period of time when the data storage device is predicted to be at about the peak workload for the data storage device in response to a determination that adding the additional workload would cause the workload of the device to exceed the maximum workload threshold.

Peak cyclical workload-based storage management in a multi-tier storage environment

In one embodiment, a system includes a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor, the logic being configured to cause the processor to: collect, by the processor, workload information for a computing/storage device for a present time period and one or more previous time periods; determine, by the processor, a maximum workload parameter for the present time period and the one or more previous time periods; determine, by the processor, a maximum workload threshold that corresponds to the maximum workload parameter; compute, by the processor, a difference between the maximum workload threshold and the maximum workload parameter; and determine, by the processor, an amount of workload to move to the computing/storage device based on the difference. Other methods and computer program products are presented in additional embodiments.

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Kaisar R Hossain