ANALYZING PERFORMANCE AND CAPACITY OF A COMPLEX STORAGE ENVIRONMENT FOR PREDICTING FAILURE

A method for predicting a failure of a complex storage environment is provided. The method includes monitoring a current utilization of one or more resources over a data path of interest, calculating a maximum utilization threshold for each resource of the one or more resources, such that exceeding the maximum utilization threshold adversely impacts one or more performance measures, creating an expected performance threshold associated with an expected performance for each performance measure of the one or more performance measures over the data path of interest, ascertaining an actual performance for each performance measure based on the monitoring of the current utilization, analyzing maximum values of resource usage over time to predict when the expected performance will fall outside of an acceptable overall performance threshold for the data path of interest, and determining an earliest expected incident of resource exhaustion.