Patent ID: 8266406
Filing Date: 2012-09-11
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of identifying new storage system resources to be added to a storage system, wherein the method is performed by a computing system having a processor and memory, the method comprising: determining a number of job failures considered a fault occurrence; managing backup storage operations between a plurality of clients, and a plurality of storage devices based on a storage policy using a plurality of data agents residing on the plurality of clients and a plurality of media management components associated with the storage devices, further comprising: receiving at a time T analyzing, by the computing system, at least the trend of the number of active data agents, the trend of the number of active media management components, and the trend of the number of fault occurrences; based at least on the trend of the number of active data agents, the trend of the number of active media management components, and the trend of the number of fault occurrences, automatically load balancing the media management components; based at least on the trend of the number of active data agents, the trend of the number of active media management components, and the trend of the number of fault occurrences further forecasting data storage needs of the storage system, wherein the forecasting includes forecasting a need for X+Y units of total data storage capacity in the storage system, where Y is a positive integer; and based on the forecasting, identifying new storage system resources to be added to the storage system at a time T, that is after the time T the new storage system resources have a total data storage capacity of at least Y units, and the new storage system resources include at least one tape drive or disk drive.