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| 20100115223 | Storage Area Allocation Method and a Management Server - An object is to allocate a storage area to a business application by taking a security evaluation of the storage area and a security evaluation value of the business application into consideration. A management server includes a business management table to store a calculated security evaluation value of a business application to be executed in a host in association with information concerning the business application, and a management table to store a calculated encryption level of a virtual pool in a storage device in association with information concerning the virtual pool. The management server retrieves a virtual pool having an encryption level which is the same in value as the evaluation value, and allocates the retrieved virtual pool to the business application. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100191906 | STORAGE CAPACITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN DYNAMIC AREA PROVISIONING STORAGE - Provided is a capacity monitoring method used for a computer system including one or more application computers, one or more storage systems, and a management computer. The storage system includes a physical disk and a disk controller. In the capacity monitoring method, a storage area of the physical disk belongs to a storage pool, the storage system provides a volume, and the management computer monitors a used capacity of the storage pool, judges whether or not a storage capacity required for operating the application computer for a predetermined time period is present in the storage pool based upon an increasing speed of the used capacity of the storage pool to be monitored, and executes a predetermined process operation when the storage capacity required for operating the application computer for the predetermined time period is not present in the storage pool. Accordingly, the storage pool is properly operated and managed. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100274766 | DATA MIGRATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A data migration management apparatus continuously monitors and stores the utilization statuses of a migration-source storage area and a migration-destination storage area, and uses the information to set up a data migration. An information management unit collects information related to the storage configuration and information related to performance from respective storage apparatuses, and stores the information in a storage unit. In a case where a data migration plan is to be set, a performance information provision unit provides, to a user computer, variations in the utilization statuses during a predetermined period for each of a migration-source volume and a migration-destination array group. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100293412 | DATA MIGRATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - The present invention provides a data migration management apparatus that can easily create a re-execution task for re-executing an error-terminated data migration task, and also can increase the possibility of the re-execution task being successful. In a case where a data migration from a migration-source volume to a migration-destination volume fails, the management apparatus uses the information of the failed task to create a re-execution task. The management apparatus changes the configuration of a volume pair as necessary. The management apparatus manages the failed task in association with the re-execution task. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20110125617 | SYSTEM FOR MANAGING OPERATION WITH RESPECT TO STORAGE APPARATUS - A management system is coupled to a storage apparatus which is an apparatus for providing a logical volume, and to a billing computer which is a computer for determining a billing amount. The management system acquires an operation-related log, which is information related to an operation that is requested of the storage apparatus by a user and that has ended normally, and the management system then stores the acquired operation-related log. The management system specifies, from a plurality of operations corresponding to a plurality of operation-related logs, an invalid operation which is an operation that corresponds to a predetermined invalid operation condition which is a condition corresponding to an invalid operation, uses an operation-related log other than the operation-related log of the specified invalid operation from among the plurality of operation-related logs to perform totalization for creating billing information, which is information comprising a totalization result required for determining a billing amount, and sends the totalization information to the billing computer. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110125890 | VOLUME SELECTION METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - In a storage management system in which a storage apparatus is connected via a network to a volume allocation management server having a performance requirement analysis unit, a volume allocation unit, and a volume performance determining unit, the performance requirements of a business application using volume-allocating data and the performance characteristics of a volume serving as a data storage destination are determined, and on the basis of the resulting information, a volume which satisfies the performance requirements is selected as the data storage destination. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110153917 | STORAGE APPARATUS AND ITS CONTROL METHOD - Proposed are a storage apparatus and its control method capable of performing power saving operations while covering the shortcomings of a flash memory such as the life being short and much time being required for rewriting data. This storage apparatus manages the storage areas provided by each of multiple nonvolatile memories as a pool, provides a virtual volume to a host computer, dynamically allocates the storage area from a virtual pool to the virtual volume according to a data write request from the host computer for writing data into the virtual volume, and places the data in the allocated storage area. In addition, the storage apparatus centralizes the placement destination of data from the host computer to a storage area provided by certain nonvolatile memories and stop the power supply to the nonvolatile memories that are unused, monitors the data rewrite count and/or access frequency to storage areas provided by the nonvolatile memories that are active, migrates data to another storage area if the data rewrite count increases, and distributes the data placement destination if the access frequency becomes excessive. | 06-23-2011 |
