COMMON STORAGE MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND COMMON STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD

A common storage management device for a system including a common storage and at least one computer includes at least one processor, the at least one computer storing a plurality of applications configured to write and read data in the common storage. The at least one processor is configured to manage a reservation of a storage space of the common storage in response to a request from the plurality of applications to reserve the storage space for storing the data. The at least one processor is configured to notify one application of the plurality of applications of a request to reduce data size of the data for which the storage space is required to be reserved per one request, when the one application requests to reserve the storage space for the data and free storage space is insufficient for reserving the storage space for the data.