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| 20080270720 | MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND MANAGEMENT METHOD - A management device and management method capable of improving usability of a storage system is proposed. The management device and the management method for managing data migration between volumes in a storage system in which normal volumes to which fixed storage areas are allocated in advance and virtual volumes to which storage areas are dynamically allocated according to use status coexist as types of volumes for reading and writing data is arranged so that information regarding each volume is collected, and based on the collected information, at least a total logical capacity that is a summation of logical capacities determined in advance for the respective volume is separately displayed for normal volumes and virtual volumes. | 10-30-2008 |
| 20080288560 | STORAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD USING DATA MIGRATION - Selection of a migration source volume and a migration destination volume of an implemented migration is accepted. Based on a completion date and time of the implemented migration and an update date and time of the volume, it is determined whether or not the selected migration source volume and migration destination volume are updated after the completion of the implemented migration. When it is determined that both the migration source volume and the migration destination volume are not updated, the implemented migration is undone by setting a storage subsystem to allow a host computer to make access to the migration source volume. | 11-20-2008 |
| 20090030953 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR DATA MIGRATION - A data migration method is provided which can provide a user at a low cost with a function of migrating data from an existing storage when an additional storage is installed. A business application is operated by using a business server and a first storage. When the capacity and performance of data used by a business application become insufficient, a second storage is installed to compensate for insufficiency. In this case, the management server collectively copies data and configuration information of the first storage to the second storage, the data and configuration information are deleted at a later time in accordance with migration command information selected from a GUI screen. It is therefore possible to migrate necessary data and configuration information of the first storage to the second storage, without making a user be conscious of the details of the configuration information of logical devices of a storage. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090240911 | Information processing apparatus and informaiton processing method - An information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of assigning, to an application, a volume having a performance required by the application while simplifying administration are proposed. A performance and a capacity of each first storage area respectively provided by each storage device as well as a performance and a capacity required for a volume respectively assigned to each application running on a host system are managed, and based on the performance and the capacity of each first storage area and the performance and the capacity required for the volume to be respectively assigned to each application, the volume having the performance and the capacity required by the application is assigned to the application, and when a plurality of the volumes are assigned to one of the applications, the volumes provided in the same storage device are preferentially assigned. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090271667 | Apparatus and Method for Monitoring Computer System - A system monitoring apparatus specifies an intentionally shutdown system component or monitoring target, and a different monitoring target that is dependent thereon (a dependent target), and does not display an alert even when an error state is detected for a monitoring target inside the intentionally shutdown system component or the intentionally shutdown monitoring target, and the dependent target of the system component or monitoring target. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20100125683 | METHOD OF MONITORING DEVICE FORMING INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - A monitoring apparatus communicatively coupled to one or more devices forming an information processing system manages each of the devices by setting the device to be in any one of monitoring states including a monitoring target to be always monitored, a semi-monitoring target to be determined if there is a change in resources and a non-monitoring target being neither the monitoring target nor the semi-monitoring target. The monitoring apparatus newly acquires resource information on a device whose monitoring state is currently set to be the monitoring target or the semi-monitoring target, and determines if any of the resources of the device is changed on the basis of the newly acquired resource information, the resource information acquired last time, and a determination condition. When determining that any of the resources has been changed, the monitoring apparatus outputs a screen prompting a change of the monitoring state of the device. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100325493 | ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR IT APPARATUSES FROM WHICH EVENT INFORMATION IS NOT OBTAINED - In the system management server, an information processing apparatus that is an event-information acquisition target is registered as a monitored apparatus in configuration information; event information that complies with a rule stored in advance is identified from among a plurality of pieces of event information stored in the system management server; a server apparatus for a network service related to the event information is identified; and a message is displayed which indicates that the cause of the event that occurred in a client information processing apparatus which has generated event information is an event related to the network service, which occurred in the server apparatus. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110213866 | NODE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - A storage resource stores a plugin information package, which is an information package comprising definition information for plugging in a node device as a management target. The definition information is information denoting at the least one of a method for acquiring information from a node device and an item of information to be acquired from a node device. A processor references the plugin information package, which is stored in the storage resource, and accesses a node device via a communication interface device based on the referenced plugin information package. The node device comprising information that has been correctly acquired in accordance with this access is regarded as the management target. | 09-01-2011 |
