The usable capacity is not so straight forward when Ceph comes into picture. With Ceph we take into consideration the 'mon_osd_full_ratio' which is 85%, so we loose 15% usable space here. Also the usable capacity depends on the OSD with the lowest free disk size available. The formula used to calculate MAX_AVAIL for pool is below: min(osd.avail for osd in OSD_up)* len(osd.avail for osd in OSD_up) /pool.size() Reported by: rhn-support-assingh https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openshift_container_storage/4.5/html/planning_your_deployment/infrastructure-requirements_rhocs#annotations:cadcf3c1-3433-4285-a862-3596f5d448e1