US Patent 11789780 Preserving quality-of-service (‘QOS’) to storage system workloads

Workload planning with quality-of-service (‘QoS’) integration, including: determining, for each of a plurality of entities, one or more QoS thresholds associated with the entity; determining, for each of the plurality of entities, one or more resource utilization levels associated with the entity; and determining, in dependence upon the one or more QoS thresholds associated with the plurality of entities, the one or more resource utilization levels associated with the plurality of entities, and one or more overprovisioning factors associated with the storage system, a risk factor that identifies the likelihood that one or more system resources will be overconsumed by the plurality of entities.