Patent ID: 8244868

Claim:
A method for thin-provisioning of storage in a storage system including a processor coupled to the storage, comprising: creating, via the processor, a workload profile of the storage from performance data, the workload profile including a measurement of changed data per a predetermined time and first resource utilization data over a period of time; deriving, via the processor, a capacity estimate from the measurement of changed data per a predetermined time; deriving, via the processor, a placement estimate from the resource utilization data obtained over a period of time; recommending, by the processor, a target capacity and a placement location to a user, the target capacity based on the capacity estimate and the placement location based on the placement estimate; providing, by the processor, a predicted resource performance impact to the user based on the capacity estimate and the placement estimate; and providing, by the processor, a location recommendation to the user based on second resource utilization for a source volume and a target volume, wherein the capacity estimate from the measurement of changed data comprises considering data that is written to the source volume a plurality of times as a single data write when measuring changed data.