Patent ID: 9514039
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer program product for managing storage space in a storage system, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therein that executes to perform operations, the operations comprising: determining provisioned storage space comprising storage space assigned to at least one application, wherein the at least one application may use less than all the provisioned storage space; determining available storage space comprising total installed physically available storage space in the storage system available to be allocated to unallocated provisioned storage space when needed for use by the at least one application having allocated storage space; determining allocated storage space comprising storage space used by the at least one application from the provisioned storage space; using the available storage space and the allocated storage space to determine a remaining free storage space; using the provisioned storage space and the allocated storage space to determine a remaining unallocated storage space; determining an allocation metric as a function of both the remaining unallocated storage space exceeding the remaining free storage space and the remaining unallocated storage space; and using the determined allocation metric to determine whether to generate a storage space related alert.