DETERMINING A METRIC CONSIDERING UNALLOCATED VIRTUAL STORAGE SPACE AND REMAINING PHYSICAL STORAGE SPACE TO USE TO DETERMINE WHETHER TO GENERATE A LOW SPACE ALERT

摘要

Provided are a method, system, and computer program product for determining a metric to use to determine whether to generate a low space alert. A determination is made of provisioned storage space comprising storage space allocated to at least one application, wherein applications may use less than all the provisioned storage space. A determination is made of available storage space comprising all installed storage space available for use by the at least one application having allocated storage space. A determination is made of allocated storage space comprising storage space used by the applications. A determination is made of an allocation metric as a function of the provisioned storage space, the allocated storage space, and the available storage space. The determined allocation metric is used to determine whether to generate a storage space related alert.