Patent ID: 9658778
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A machine implemented method, comprising: monitoring a non-volatile memory delay center for a first cluster having a first node and a second node configured to operate as a first high availability pair, where data for a write request to write data to the first node is also written to the second node as well as to a second cluster having a third node and a fourth node, where the third node and the fourth node are also configured to operate as a second high availability pair to store the data for the write request at one or both of the third and fourth node; wherein the non-volatile memory delay center is used to monitor and detect latency due to any delay caused by a non-volatile memory of the first node used as a write cache; determining if a sum of write traffic for storage volumes associated with the first node and write traffic from either the third node or the fourth node has reached a threshold value, when the latency in processing write requests is unacceptable; and notifying a user to check the non-volatile memory when the threshold value is reached; wherein a management application collects response time for the non-volatile memory delay center and predicts an expected response time for the future and when the predicted response time reaches a certain value, then the sum of write traffic for the storage volumes associated with the first node and the write traffic from either the third node or the fourth node is compared with an overall storage capacity of the non-volatile memory to determine if the overall storage capacity has been reached.