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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Mirza S. Baig, Grand Prairie, TX (US);
Paul Lawrence Bradshaw, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Divyesh Jadav, San Jose, CA (US);
Bryan Steward Langston, Herriman, UT (US);
Nagapramod S. Mandagere, San Jose, CA (US);
Aameek Singh, University Place, WA (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
One embodiment provides a method, including: generating, for each of a plurality of storage volumes, an actual used storage capacity model and identifying a potential storage capacity savings using the actual used capacity model, wherein each of the plurality of storage volumes has been identified as a candidate for migration to a thin provisioned volume; generating, for each of the plurality of storage volumes, an input/output profile model and identifying a potential change in performance of an application accessing the storage volume using the input/output profile model; generating, for each of the plurality of storage volumes, a growth profile and identifying a potential change in capacity using the growth profile; and determining, using an optimization algorithm, a subset of the plurality of storage volumes to be migrated to thin provisioned volumes based upon the volume capacity model, the performance model, and the volume growth profile.