1. A method comprising: determining, by a storage management computing device, for each one of one or more requests, a priority level based on a resource utilization estimate comprising a number of deduplication operations to be performed; placing, by the storage management computing device, the one or more requests into a deduplication queue, wherein a position of each one of the one or more requests in the deduplication queue is based on the determined priority level of each one of the one or more requests; and performing, by the storage management computing device, the deduplication operations in an order corresponding to the position of the one or more requests in the deduplication queue.