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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2008
Yoav Ossia, Haifa, IL;
Yoav Ossia, Haifa, IL;
LSI Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a method of issuing volume level alerts to provide a warning that indicates overutilization of storage resources in a computer system. Volume level checking is performed without the necessity of checking all the volumes, but only upon the occurrence of certain changes so that the only the most problematic volumes are checked. Hence, only a small number of volumes must be checked and only in response to certain identified changes. The method is applicable to any criterion for overutilization of storage resources which satisfies basic persistency rules. The method is also applicable to assessing risk for the use of other resources, such as communication bandwidth, that are supplied by resource providers, or pools of providers, to users of bandwidth. The principles disclosed can be utilized to check resources on an asset by asset basis, using the free space ratio definition provided to assess risk of overutilization of resources.