Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080209158 | System and Method for Configuration Management of Storage System - A discrepancy between a management range of a user on a management computer and a management range of the user in a storage, is detected with respect to a volume held in the storage. Storage management information of the management computer stores a correspondence between an identifier of a volume group, and a identifier of the user. When a plurality of volumes are designated as a managed object of the user, the management computer references the storage management information, and obtains, from the storage, an identifier of the volume group to which the plurality of designated volumes belong. Next, the management computer references the storage management information, and determines whether or not the obtained volume group is in management range of the same user. | 08-28-2008 |
20080222356 | CONNECTING DEVICE OF STORAGE DEVICE AND COMPUTER SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME CONNECTING DEVICE - In an environment in which plural external storage devices having different function control interfaces are intermixed, when a function of a storage device is controlled from a computer, a common interface for controlling the function of the storage device is provided. A device that provides the common interface manages an interrelationship between a storage area recognized by a host computer and a storage area provided by the storage device and associates a storage area which becomes a target of a function control instruction with the storage device that provides the storage area. A type of the storage device that provides the storage area which becomes the target of the function control instruction is identified and function control is ordered through a function control interface unique to the device. | 09-11-2008 |
20090138667 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTER SYSTEM - A management computer collects, from a storage subsystem via a management network, path definition information including the contents of a security setting made to a path accessible to a volume in the storage subsystem, and when the volume in the storage subsystem is an original volume having a replica volume, replica definition information of the original volume. Based on the replica configuration information thus collected from the storage subsystem, the replica relationship between the volumes is to be grasped. Then, based on the path definition information also collected from the storage subsystem, the contents of the path security setting are verified for the volumes under the same replica relationship, and the verification result is output. In such a structure, consistency verification can be easily done for the security setting of the original and replica volumes. | 05-28-2009 |
20090307391 | CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD - To migrate a configuration that an old storage device has to a new storage device. A new storage device obtains a configuration of an old storage device, by using a migration manager, and prepares a logical volume definition of the new storage device based on a logical volume definition in the configuration. Also, based a cache allocation definition in the configuration and cache capacity of the new storage device, a cache allocation definition of the new storage device is prepared. Further, based on a port bandwidth allocation definition in the configuration and bandwidth capacity of a port of the new storage device, a port bandwidth allocation definition of the new storage device is prepared. The prepared logical volume definition, cache allocation definition and port bandwidth allocation definition are set up in a configuration of the new storage device. | 12-10-2009 |
20100011184 | MANAGEMENT METHOD AND A MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR VOLUME - It is made possible to update information registered in a database of iSNS, SLP and the like in response to a configurational change in a storage device, and for a host computer to discover a disk volume. In response to changes in contents of operation to alter a storage configuration such as in creating or deleting a volume or LUN, contents of the alteration are reflected in the database of iSNS or SLP. Also, in response to a change in setting of LUN masking, a discovery domain of iSNS or attribute values of SLP are updated so that the host computer can discover the disk volume. Also, objects and services are reregistered periodically according to a registration period of iSNS or lifetime of SLP to prevent registered contents from expiring. | 01-14-2010 |
20110276678 | MANAGEMENT METHOD AND A MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR VOLUME - It is made possible to update information registered in a database of iSNS, SLP and the like in response to a configurational change in a storage device, and for a host computer to discover a disk volume. In response to changes in contents of operation to alter a storage configuration such as in creating or deleting a volume or LUN, contents of the alteration are reflected in the database of iSNS or SLP. Also, in response to a change in setting of LUN masking, a discovery domain of iSNS or attribute values of SLP are updated so that the host computer can discover the disk volume. Also, objects and services are reregistered periodically according to a registration period of iSNS or lifetime of SLP to prevent registered contents from expiring. | 11-10-2011 |
20120179888 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SETTING ACCESS RESTRICTION INFORMATION - The storage system includes a host computer; a management computer coupled to the host computer; a first storage device coupled to the host computer and the management computer, and including first port management information; and a second storage device coupled to the host computer, the management computer and the first storage device, and including second port management information. The first port management information and the second port management information include an identifier of a port on each storage device, an identifier of a volume in each storage device, an access restriction and an identifier of a port permitted access from the host computer to each storage device. | 07-12-2012 |
20120210063 | MANAGEMENT METHOD AND A MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR VOLUME - It is made possible to update information registered in a database of iSNS, SLP and the like in response to a configurational change in a storage device, and for a host computer to discover a disk volume. In response to changes in contents of operation to alter a storage configuration such as in creating or deleting a volume or LUN, contents of the alteration are reflected in the database of iSNS or SLP. Also, in response to a change in setting of LUN masking, a discovery domain of iSNS or attribute values of SLP are updated so that the host computer can discover the disk volume. Also, objects and services are reregistered periodically according to a registration period of iSNS or lifetime of SLP to prevent registered contents from expiring. | 08-16-2012 |