Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090138753 | Server switching method and server system equipped therewith - There is disclosed a high speed switching method for a disk image delivery system fail-over. A management server sends a disk image of an active server in advance to a standby server. When receiving a report that the active server has failed, the management server judges whether or not it is possible for the standby server to perform the service of the failed active server based on service provision management server information held by the management server and if possible, instructs the standby server to perform the service of the active server. Even if the disk image delivered in advance is different from the disk image of the failed active server, switching of is the service to the standby server can be performed more quickly through resetting the setting values of unique information and installing the additional pieces of software on the standby server by the management server than redelivering an appropriate disk image. | 05-28-2009 |
20090287799 | PROGRAM DEPLOYMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - With a program deployment apparatus that is connected via a network to at least one physical server including a physical server with a virtualization facility for providing a virtual server to a client and deploys a program to the at least one physical server as necessary, and by a program deployment method for such a program deployment apparatus for deploying a program to the at least one physical server as necessary, one or more nodes which are connected via the network and are any of the physical server, the virtualization facility, and the virtual server are detected, first configuration information about a virtual layer of each detected node is acquired for each detected node, and the program is selectively deployed to the relevant node based on the first configuration information for each acquired node. | 11-19-2009 |
20100115077 | METHOD OF BUILDING SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT SERVER - Devices unnecessary for deployment are invalidated during the deployment. A method of building a system and a management server for establishing a system according to the present invention have the following configuration. The management server obtains server information from a server connected through a network, refers to the obtained server information to select devices unnecessary for deployment among devices connected to the server, and invalidates the selected devices. | 05-06-2010 |
20100138686 | FAILURE RECOVERY METHOD, FAILURE RECOVERY PROGRAM AND MANAGEMENT SERVER - In a computer system, including server apparatuses such as an active server and a standby server connected to a storage apparatus, when the active server fails, a management server changes over connection to the storage apparatus from the active server to standby server to thereby hand over operation to the standby server. The management server refers to a fail-over strategy table in which apparatus information of the server apparatuses is associated with fail-over methods to select fail-over strategy in consideration of apparatus information of the active and standby servers. | 06-03-2010 |
20100325634 | Method of Deciding Migration Method of Virtual Server and Management Server Thereof - Occupancy amount of physical resource of a virtual server(VS) is calculated based on maximum physical resource amount indicating performance of a physical server(PS), the occupied virtual resource coefficient indicating relation of physical resource amount used by the VS to the physical resource amount allocated to the VS and the allocated physical resource coefficient indicating relation of the allocated physical resource to the maximum physical resource amount of the PS, and change value of the occupied physical resource amount from a predetermined occupied physical resource amount is calculated based on the calculated occupancy amount and the predetermined occupied physical resource amount. The migration time required of the VS is calculated based on the calculated change value, variation ratio indicating degree of influence exerted by change of the occupied virtual resource coefficient of the VS on the required migration time and reference execution time set based on the predetermined occupied physical resource amount. | 12-23-2010 |
20100332661 | Computer System and Its Operation Information Management Method - Even if software resources for a physical server are changed, log information about the physical server can be accurately matched against the software resources. | 12-30-2010 |
20110010634 | Management Apparatus and Management Method - A highly reliable management apparatus and management method capable of allocating a resource that satisfies a user's request is suggested. | 01-13-2011 |
20110107138 | SERVER SWITCHING METHOD AND SERVER SYSTEM EQUIPPED THEREWITH - There is disclosed a high speed switching method for a disk image delivery system fail-over. A management server sends a disk image of an active server in advance to a standby server. When receiving a report that the active server has failed, the management server judges whether or not it is possible for the standby server to perform the service of the failed active server based on service provision management server information held by the management server and if possible, instructs the standby server to perform the service of the active server. Even if the disk image delivered in advance is different from the disk image of the failed active server, switching of the service to the standby server can be performed more quickly through resetting the setting values of unique information and installing the additional pieces of software on the standby server by the management server than redelivering an appropriate disk image. | 05-05-2011 |
20110113127 | PROGRAM DEPLOYMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - With a management server that is connected via a network to at least one physical server including a physical server with a virtualization facility for providing a virtual server to a client and deploys a program to the at least one physical server as necessary, and by a program deployment method for such a management server for deploying a program to the at least one physical server as necessary, there is provided units for detecting one or more nodes which are any of the physical server, the virtualization facility, and the virtual server and connected via the network, acquiring first configuration information about a virtual layer of each detected node for each detected node, and selectively deploying the program to the relevant node based on the first configuration information for each acquired node. | 05-12-2011 |
20110270962 | METHOD OF BUILDING SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT SERVER - Devices unnecessary for deployment are invalidated during the deployment. A method of building a system and a management server for establishing a system according to the present invention have the following configuration. The management server obtains server information from a server connected through a network, refers to the obtained server information to select devices unnecessary for deployment among devices connected to the server, and invalidates the selected devices. | 11-03-2011 |
20120036393 | FAILURE RECOVERY METHOD, FAILURE RECOVERY PROGRAM AND MANAGEMENT SERVER - In a computer system including server apparatuses such as an active server and a standby server connected to a storage apparatus, when the active server fails, a management server changes over connection to the storage apparatus from the active server to standby server to thereby hand over operation to the standby server. The management server refers to a fail-over strategy table in which apparatus information of the server apparatuses is associated with fail-over methods to select fail-over strategy in consideration of apparatus information of the active and standby servers. | 02-09-2012 |
20120131379 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND AVAILABILITY METHOD THEREOF - High availability computer system and fault correction method. If a fault occurs in the current-system physical device allocated to the current-system virtual device of the virtual server, the virtualization mechanism of the physical server configures, for the standby-system virtual device of the virtual server, the standby-system physical device, as a physical device which is used at a high priority, and the virtualization mechanism distributes the request issued from the standby-system virtual device of another virtual server to a standby-system physical device, but, when such a standby-system physical device does not exist, the virtualization mechanism distributes the request to a standby-system physical device configured for high priority usage. | 05-24-2012 |
20130138998 | METHOD FOR SWITCHING APPLICATION SERVER, MANAGEMENT COMPUTER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - It is provided a management computer which refers to switching level information including switching patterns to be used at a time of switching the first task to the second application server; sets a level of a degree of safety for each of the switching patterns; refers to a stop time for each first task which is allowed upon switching the first task to the second application server; selects one of the switching patterns having a switching time that is shorter than the stop time of the task requirement information which is set to the first task and having the level of the degree of safety that is highest among the switching patterns of the switching level information; stops the second task of the second application server by the selected one of the switching patterns; and then controls the second application server to provide the first task. | 05-30-2013 |
20130160014 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM - In cases where decided that the guaranteed resource capacity for virtual machine cannot be acquired all at one time, the computer system of the present invention decides whether or not resource capacity guaranteed for virtual machine can be continuously acquired by the start of the virtual machine operation, and if decided that the resource capacity can be continuously acquired, the computer system allocates the total acquired resource capacity to the virtual machine deployed on the physical machine. | 06-20-2013 |
20130179532 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND SYSTEM SWITCH CONTROL METHOD FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM - Disclosed is a computer system provided with an I/O processing unit comprising a buffer and a control unit, wherein the buffer is located between the first computer and a storage apparatus and between a second computer and the storage apparatus and temporarily stores an I/O output from a first computer, and the control unit outputs data stored in the buffer to the storage apparatus, and wherein, a management computer functions to store the I/O output of the first computer in the buffer at a predetermined time, to separate a first storage unit and a second storage unit which are mirror volumes, to connect the buffer and the second storage unit, to connect the second computer and the first storage unit, to output data stored in the buffer to the second storage unit, and to activate the second computer using the first storage unit. | 07-11-2013 |
20130227585 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND PROCESSING CONTROL METHOD - A processing control method whereby a management server: assigns work to and executes said work on a computer; sets the processing start time and the processing end time for the aforementioned work as task execution information; sets a first physical resource amount, which is the amount of the physical resources of the aforementioned computer needed for execution of the aforementioned processing; acquires a second physical resource amount, which is the amount of the physical resources of the aforementioned computer that are being used; updates the processing start time for the aforementioned work to a time that is close to the current time when the aforementioned computer has the physical resources of the sum of the aforementioned first physical resource amount and the aforementioned second physical resources; and instructs the aforementioned computer to begin the aforementioned processing when the current time reaches the aforementioned processing start time. | 08-29-2013 |
20130311740 | METHOD OF DATA MIGRATION AND INFORMATION STORAGE SYSTEM - An example of the invention is a method of data migration from a source volume including storage areas of a plurality of source storage tiers different in performance capability to a destination volume including storage areas of a plurality of destination storage tiers different in performance capability, data relocation being performed among the plurality of source storage tiers in accordance with accesses to the source volume during the data migration. The method includes: starting the data migration between volumes from the source volume to the destination volume; acquiring information on a data arrangement in the source volume determined based on an access history to the source volume during the data migration between volumes from the source volume to the destination volume; and determining a data arrangement in the destination volume during the data migration between volumes based on the data arrangement indicated by the acquired information. | 11-21-2013 |
20130346584 | CONTROL METHOD FOR VIRTUAL COMPUTER, AND VIRTUAL COMPUTER SYSTEM - A control method for a virtual computer comprising a plurality of physical computers, a management server for managing the plurality of physical computers, and at least one virtual computer, which is provided by a virtualizing part executed on each of the plurality of physical computers, the management server controlling the at least one virtual computer and the virtualization part, the control method comprising: detecting, by the management server, a relationship between the virtualization part and the virtual computer operating on the plurality of physical computers; detecting, by the management server, an operation state of the virtual computer; and one of restraining and permitting, by the management server, when the management server issues a command for changing a state to one of the virtualization part and the virtual computer, issuance of the command based on an operation state of the virtual computer in a coupling relationship with the virtualization part. | 12-26-2013 |
20140019624 | RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND MANAGEMENT SERVER - In order to effectively use the resources on a network, there is provided a management server ( | 01-16-2014 |
20140019667 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING I/O SWITCH, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING VIRTUAL COMPUTER, AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - The present invention is provided with: computers provided with a processor, a memory, and an I/O interface; an I/O switch for connecting a plurality of the computers with an I/O adapter; a management computer for managing the I/O switch and the computers; and a first network for connecting the computers with the management computer. The I/O switch has a dedicated adaptor connected to the management computer. The management computer selects from the plurality of computers a computer for performing data transfer, commands the I/O switch to connect the I/O interface of the selected computer and the dedicated adaptor, transfers data between the selected computer, senses that data transfer with the selected computer has been completed, and commands the I/O switch to disconnect the dedicated adaptor from the I/O interface of the selected computer after completion of the data transfer with the selected computer has been sensed. | 01-16-2014 |
20140032753 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND NODE SEARCH METHOD - A computer system and node search method capable of reducing node discovery time in the computer system with a large number of nodes and a large number of supported protocols is proposed. The computer system includes a management server which is connected to each of first and second nodes via a network and collects and manages first information for each of the first and second nodes including network addresses of the first and second nodes and a protocol type of a communication protocol to be used when communicating with the first or second node. When the management server searches the first and second nodes over the network and detects the second node, it acquires the network address of each first node managed by the second node and the protocol type of the communication protocol to be used when communicating with the first node. | 01-30-2014 |
20140047083 | ADMINISTRATION INFORMATION GENERATION METHOD, ADMINISTRATION INFORMATION GENERATION PROGRAM, AND ADMINISTRATION INFORMATION GENERATION DEVICE - The present invention relates to a management information generation method for a management information generation apparatus ( | 02-13-2014 |
20140143398 | METHOD OF DEPLOYING A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT USING A DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT - Provided is a computer system, including: at least one storage system providing at least one logical volume, at least one host computer including an I/O device, and a management computer, in which the management computer creates a virtual computer within a network segment to which the management computer belongs, the virtual computer including an I/O device that is the same as the I/O device of the host computer in number and type, defines a connection between the logical volume and the virtual computer, stores a program in the logical volume connected to the virtual computer, sets identification information on the host computer in the virtual computer, releases the connection between the logical volume that stores the program and the virtual computer, and defines a connection between the logical volume whose connection has been released and the host computer. | 05-22-2014 |
20140259014 | VIRTUAL SERVER PROCESSING CONTROL METHOD, SYSTEM, AND VIRTUAL SERVER PROCESSING CONTROL MANAGEMENT SERVER - Each of hypervisors operates on one of physical servers, and a virtual server operates in accordance with a file image on one of data stores. A management server, when being instructed to execute a task that is configured by a series of steps for a hypervisor on the physical server, gives an instruction for changing the execution place of a step to a temporary execution place and executing the task in a case where there is no restriction on the execution place of the step and instructs a default hypervisor to execute the task in a case where there is a restriction on the execution place of the step. | 09-11-2014 |
20140317625 | CONTROL METHOD OF VIRTUAL MACHINE AND VIRTUAL MACHINE SYSTEM - A method of controlling a virtual machine, including: detecting a predetermined trigger by a management server; acquiring a relationship between a virtualization unit and a virtual machine operated on a physical computer; specifying a virtual machine as a migration target based on preset trigger definition information; determining a physical computer of a migration destination based on a preset first control pattern to generate a first plan to migrate the virtual machine as the migration destination; transforming the first control pattern to a second control pattern; generating a second plan to migrate the virtual machine as the migration destination; performing arithmetic an evaluation value of the first plan and an evaluation value of the second plan; selecting one of the evaluation values meeting a predetermined condition as an execution plan; and migrating by the management server the virtual machine as the migration target based on the selected execution plan. | 10-23-2014 |
20150067401 | COMPUTER RECOVERY METHOD, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A computer recovery method for a computer system, the computer system having: a management computer having a processor and a memory; and a computer having a processor, a memory, and a monitoring part for notifying, when an abnormality occurs, the management computer of the abnormality, the management computer being configured to instruct recovery from the abnormality, the computer recovery method having: a first step of obtaining, by the management computer, hardware components and software components of the computer as configuration information; a second step of receiving, by the management computer, notification of an abnormality from the monitoring part of the computer; and a third step of generating, by the management computer, after the notification is received, component string information for identifying a component where the abnormality has occurred from the configuration information. | 03-05-2015 |
20150074251 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND MANAGEMENT COMPUTER - A computer system, comprising: at least one computer; at least one network apparatus; at least one storage apparatus; and a plurality of service systems for use in execution of given services, the at least one computer including a system control part for managing the plurality of service systems, the system control part being configured to: hold system configuration information and evaluation information; obtain configuration information of the plurality of service systems from the system configuration information, in a case of evaluating the reliability of the plurality of service systems in the services; calculate the evaluation values of the plurality of service systems; and generate information that indicates the reliability of the plurality of service systems based on the calculated evaluation values. | 03-12-2015 |