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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Nadav Parag, Rehovot, IL;
Tamir Riechberg, Hod-HaSharon, IL;
Vladimir Shalikashvili, Petah-Tiqwa, IL;
Moshe Weiss, Petah-Tiqwa, IL;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, computing systems and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include presenting, on a display, multiple storage objects and their respective current utilizations, and forecasting a respective subsequent utilization for each of the storage objects at each of one or more future times. Examples of the storage objects include of a storage facility having multiple sites, one or more storage systems at a given site, storage pools in the storage systems, and logical volumes in the storage pools. Upon receiving a first input indicating a change to the multiple storage objects, and receiving a second input indicating a given future time, the respective forecasted subsequent utilizations of the changed multiple storage objects at the given future time is presented on a display. Examples of changes to the storage objects include adding an additional storage object and moving or resizing a storage object.