Patent ID: 9158653
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of determining impact of a backup job on storage resources, the method executed by a computer storage system and comprising: receiving parameters for a backup job, wherein the parameters include at least job size, retention policy, backup window, and compression factor; determining by an estimator component in a virtual library storage system, an estimated performance and an estimated capacity for the backup job; determining by a monitoring component in the virtual library storage system, an actual performance and an actual capacity of a storage device without the backup job; determining, by a simulator component in the virtual library storage system, a simulated performance based on adding the estimated performance and the actual performance; and determining by a simulator component in the virtual library storage system, a simulated capacity based on adding the estimated capacity and the actual capacity; and comparing the simulated performance and simulated capacity to a threshold to determine impact of the backup job on storage resources.