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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Duo Chen, Shanghai, CN;

Da Liu, Shanghai, CN;

Min Fang, Shanghai, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0607 (2013.01); G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/0653 (2013.01); G06F 3/0665 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 2206/1012 (2013.01);
Abstract

This disclosure provides a method, a computing system and a computer program product for managing storage capacity usage in a storage system. For each of a plurality of logical storage arrays in the storage system, a Remaining Time Buffer (RTB) measure indicating time to use up respective free space currently available to the logical storage array is calculated. Respective free space currently available to each of one or more of the plurality of logical storage arrays is adjusted, so that the RTB measures of the one or more logical storage arrays satisfy a threshold.


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