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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
May. 28, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Herve G. P. Andre, Orlando, FL (US);
Matthew D. Carson, Tucson, AZ (US);
Rashmi Chandra, San Jose, CA (US);
Clint A. Hardy, Tucson, AZ (US);
Larry Juarez, Tucson, AZ (US);
Tony Leung, Tucson, AZ (US);
Todd C. Sorenson, Tucson, AZ (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for determining an availability score based on available resources of different resource types in a storage system to determine whether to perform a failure operation for the storage system. Information is maintained indicating availability of a plurality of storage system resources for a plurality of resource types. An availability score is calculated as a function of a number of available resources of the resource types. Information on the availability score is transmitted to a failure manager. The failure manager uses the transmitted availability information to determine whether to initiate a storage system failure mode for the storage system.