Patent ID: 8244850

Claim:
A computerized system, comprising: a plurality of heterogeneous host-side servers, wherein each of the plurality of heterogeneous host-side servers employs one of a plurality of different host-side virtualization strategies to define a plurality of host-side storage objects; a storage system coupled to the plurality of heterogeneous host-side servers, wherein a storage server in the storage system employs a storage virtualization strategy that defines a plurality of logical data containers in the storage system to store data associated with the plurality of host-side storage objects; and a management server coupled to the storage system and the plurality of heterogeneous host-side servers, wherein the management server is to centrally monitor for out-of-space events in the storage system and automatically correlate the out-of-space events in the storage system to out-of-space events for the host-side storage objects by: detecting the out-of space events in the plurality of logical data containers in the storage system; reporting the out-of-space events for the host-side storage objects associated with the logical data containers in which the out-of-space events were detected to a respective host-side server based on the automatic correlation; for each of the detected out-of-space events, finding all file systems that are mounted over a logical data container in which an out-of-space event was detected; and for each file system of the file systems, creating an event warning of the out-of-space event for the file system.