Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080215771 | POOL I/O DEVICE OPERATION CONFIRMATION METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM - In a computer system to which a plurality of I/O devices are connected and a pool I/O device is included therein, a periodical operation confirmation is performed on a pool I/O device to be used when a fault occurs. A pool I/O device operation confirmation section obtains pool I/O device status information from a pool I/O device status information storage section (provided inside or outside the computer system). The status information includes a pool I/O device ID for identifying the pool I/O device, a type of the pool I/O device, a status value indicating an operation confirmation result, and an update time indicating the most recent operation confirmation time. Then, the pool I/O device operation confirmation section activates the pool I/O device and performs an operation confirmation thereon; terminates the operation of the pool I/O device after the operation confirmation; and updates the pool I/O device status information using the operation confirmation result obtained by the operation confirmation. | 09-04-2008 |
20080294920 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRIC POWER OF COMPUTER SYSTEM - To reduce the electric power consumption of the computer system, the computer system includes at least one server and at least one data processing apparatus, the data processing apparatus includes an electric power consumption state control module by which electric power consumption of the data processing apparatus can be changed, obtains a use relationship between each server and each processing apparatus included in the computer system, monitors a change in a state of the server, searches for a related data processing apparatus in the use relationship with the server, obtains a state of at least one related server in the use relationship with the related data processing apparatus, and determines whether an electric power consumption state of the related data processing apparatus is to be changed or not based on the state of the related server, and changes the electric power consumption state of the related data processing apparatus. | 11-27-2008 |
20080294933 | FAIL-OVER METHOD, COMPUTER SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND BACKUP SERVER SETTING METHOD - A management server obtains configuration information of an active server and creates a logical partition in a backup server so as to correspond to the active server. The backup server starts up the created logical partition. And when the created logical partition reaches a predetermined state, the backup server releases allocation of the first processor resource to the logical partition, thereby the logical partition stands by. The management server, when detecting an error occurred in the active server, stops the active server and searches the logical partition having same configuration as the active server in which error is detected, and enables allocation of the first processor resource to the searched logical partition, thereby completing the start-up of the logical partition. | 11-27-2008 |
20080313362 | I/O device switching method - An I/O device management table that manages the types of I/O devices connected to an I/O switch is provided, and one or plural unallocated I/O devices are defined and registered as standby I/O devices. When a failure occurs in any of I/O devices, the I/O device management table is used to select an I/O device of the same type as the failed I/O device from the standby I/O devices, and the selected I/O device is allocated to a computer to which the failed I/O device is connected. I/O device management can be eased at failure in a computer including an I/O switch device. | 12-18-2008 |
20090106579 | STORAGE SWITCH SYSTEM, STORAGE SWITCH METHOD, MANAGEMENT SERVER, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - A switch control system including a storage unit, a switch which logically sets a network topology between the storage unit and a plurality of computers, and a management server which communicates with the switch and the storage unit, wherein the storage unit includes at least one disk; wherein the management server comprises a memory and a processor, wherein the memory holds the network topology which is set by the switch, wherein when a failure is detected in one of the computers currently being used, the processor of the management server refers to the memory to change the network topology for the computer where the failure is detected and another computer which substitutes the computer where the failure is detected, and instructs the switch with the changed network topology so as to cause the switch to logically set the changed network topology, and wherein the management server controls the disk of the computer where the failure is detected to be accessible. | 04-23-2009 |
20090113124 | VIRTUAL COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - In a virtual computer system controlling a disk volume and a virtual server which is connected to the disk volume, to which the area of the disk volume is allocated as a virtual disk and which executes a process using the allocated virtual disk, the virtual computer system erases information stored in the virtual disk allocated to the virtual server to be deleted correspondingly with the deletion of the virtual server. According to another embodiment of the present invention, an administrative server is provided to select a server system which is low in load from among plural server systems controlling virtual servers as a server system for erasing information stored in the virtual disk allocated to the virtual server to be deleted. | 04-30-2009 |
20090125667 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING POWER CONSUMPTION OF A MEMORY ACCORDING TO MAPPING - There is provided a method of controlling power consumption of a memory, which is executed in a computer system including operation server and a management server. The operation server includes one or more memory chips which are units to control the power consumption of the memory, a power control module for controlling power consumption of the memory chips, and a virtualization module for operating one or more virtual servers. The management server manages the mapping between the one or more virtual servers and the one or more memory chips. The method comprises the steps of instructing the operation server to change the power consumption of the one or more memory chips based on whether the obtained access information is capable of achieving predetermined target performance and the mapping information, and changing the power consumption of the one or more memory chips based on the instruction from the management server. | 05-14-2009 |
20090132683 | DEPLOYMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - A deployment method and system in the OS deployment software are disclosed in which the deployment is possible to server units having various hardware configurations. In a computer system, a disk image of a deployer server unit is managed by a management server and a deployee server unit is connected to the management server through a network. The hardware configuration information of the deployer server unit and a hardware configuration tolerance list obtained from a driver information file in the disk image are held in the disk image. In response to a deployment instruction from the user, the management server compares the hardware configuration of the deployer server unit with that of the deployee server unit, and by detecting the difference therebetween, changes the deployment method in accordance with the detected difference. | 05-21-2009 |
20090138580 | METHOD OF BOOTING AN OPERATING SYSTEM - For use in a system where a plurality of servers are connected to an external disk device, a method is provided for a server to boot an operating system from the external disk device. The method includes the steps of searching for the port of a network switch to which the server is connected; establishing a network to which only the server and a management server belong; sending a server information acquisition program from the management server to the server via a network boot operation; acquiring, by the server information acquisition program, unique information owned by the storage interface of the server for transfer to the management server; and setting, by the management server, a disk within the external disk device accessible from the server based on the unique information. | 05-28-2009 |
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 |
20090150528 | METHOD FOR SETTING UP FAILURE RECOVERY ENVIRONMENT - A method for configuring failover environment, wherein the data on the configuration of the standby server device is obtained by transferring a program for obtaining configuration data to the standby server device; comparison is made in the configuration management table in the management server between the configuration of the standby server device and that of the working server device; and the working server device is started up by emulating the configuration lacking in the working server device by using the unit for emulating the server configuration when the configuration of the standby server device and that of the working server device are different from each other. | 06-11-2009 |
20090187675 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND MISMATCHED CONNECTION CONFIGURATION DETECTION METHOD - The management of computers connected with I/O switch devices is simplified. A computer system S includes one or several computers (server devices), one or several I/O devices, one or several I/O switch devices, and a management server | 07-23-2009 |
20090187776 | SERVER POWER CONSUMPTION CONTROLLER, AND METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING SERVER POWER CONSUMPTION - The power consumption controller of the present invention controls the power consumption of a physical server having a virtual server at an appropriate value. A management server determines an unused CPU budget from the difference between the total amount of the loads of respective virtual servers and a hypervisor and the total CPU budget of the physical server. The management server determines the drive frequency of the CPU inside the physical server based on the unused CPU budget. The management server changes a CPU allocation budget related to the respective virtual servers and the hypervisor in accordance with the determined drive frequency. The hypervisor controls the CPU allocation budget and drive frequency in accordance with an indication from the management server. Consequently, the power consumption of the physical server is controlled. | 07-23-2009 |
20090248950 | USER DATA PROTECTION METHOD IN SERVER APPARATUS, SERVER APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A user data protection method in which a management server includes an address replacement table having correspondence relation of memory addresses of a memory assigned to a virtual server and memory addresses of a memory assigned to a virtualization mechanism which is different from that at usual time, comprising the steps of: making, when an event occurs, the virtual server send virtual server identifier information for identifying the virtual server to the management server; making the management server detect the event; making the management server specify the virtual server in which the event occurs in accordance with the virtual server identifier information; sending the address replacement table to the virtualization mechanism of the physical server including the specified virtual server; and changing the correspondence relation of the memory addresses of the virtual server and the memory addresses of the virtualization mechanism on the basis of the address replacement table. | 10-01-2009 |
20090265569 | POWER CONTROL METHOD FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM - Provided is a computer system comprising: an input/output switch coupled to a plurality of input/output devices; a server which is coupled to the input/output switch and, which uses the plurality of input/output devices; and a management computer coupled to the input/output switch and the plurality of input/output devices. The management computer manages pieces of management information including a port of the input/output switch coupled to the each of the plurality of input/output devices, an association of a device coupled to the each of the plurality of input/output devices, and a usage ratio of the each of the plurality of input/output devices; selects at least one of the input/output devices of which the usage ratio is smaller than a first predetermined threshold according to the pieces of management information; and processes, by another input/output device coupled to the input/output switch, a request for the selected input/output device. | 10-22-2009 |
20090276511 | CONTROLLING METHOD, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND PROCESSING PROGRAM OF BOOTING UP A COMPUTER - A computer system having computers executing programs, a management computer managing said computers, and a storage system which can be accessed from said computers via a network, wherein said management computer includes: a storage unit for storing network identity information of said network which is allocated to said computers, application identity information indicating said programs, and area identity information indicating areas in said storage system in which said programs are stored, said network identity information and said area identity information being related to said application identity information, a control unit for sending to said computers said network identity information and said area identity information corresponding to said application identity information, in order to boot programs indicated by said application identity information, in response to entry of a boot request including said application identity information. | 11-05-2009 |
20090282283 | MANAGEMENT SERVER IN INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND CLUSTER MANAGEMENT METHOD - An information processing system includes I/O devices, I/O switches each of which is coupled to the I/O devices, multiple server apparatuses which are coupled to the I/O switch and with which a cluster can be constructed, and a management server. In the system, a management server is that: stores an identifier and a coupling port ID of the I/O switch to which any of the server apparatuses and any of the I/O devices are coupled; stores information as to whether or not each of the I/O devices can use loopback function for the heart beat signal; selects one of the I/O devices available for the loopback function in constructing the cluster between the server apparatuses; generates a heart beat path using the selected I/O device as a loopback point; and performs settings on the I/O device. | 11-12-2009 |
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 |
20090319604 | COMPUTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CHANGING I/O CONFIGURATION THEREOF - A computing system includes: first and second I/O interfaces that are associated with a server; and an I/O management unit that connects the server with the first and second I/O interfaces. The I/O management unit includes: an I/O buffer; an I/O mapping unit that stores an access request of the server to the first I/O interface in the I/O buffer in response to a change start request of the first I/O interface associated with the server to the second I/O interface; an I/O changing unit that associates the second I/O interface with the server; and an I/O synchronizing unit that converts the access request stored in the I/O buffer into an access request to the second I/O interface, in response to the completion of the association by the I/O changing unit, and executes the converted access request. | 12-24-2009 |
20090327778 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND POWER-SAVE CONTROL METHOD FOR USE IN THE SYSTEM - A technique for determining task allocation for reducing power consumption of an entire system is disclosed. This system includes physical computers, a cooling apparatus for cooling the physical computers, and a power-saving control server for controlling the physical computers and cooling apparatus. The power-saving control server includes a virtual server layout generator which sets up a plurality of sets of task allocations with respect to the physical computers, a server power calculator for calculating power consumption of the physical computers in each task allocation, a physical computer profile used to estimate a heat release amount of the physical computers in each task allocation, a cooling power calculator which computes power consumption of the cooling apparatus, and a virtual server relocator which determines a task allocation with a total of calculated values of the server/cooling power calculators being minimized to be the optimum task allocation for the physical computers. | 12-31-2009 |
20100011095 | Method for reproducing configuration of a computer system in a remote site - A computer system that has formerly handled a service is quickly reproduced with another computer system to resume the service immediately. The association relations between services run by a primary site ( | 01-14-2010 |
20100050011 | FAILURE RECOVERY METHOD - The reliability is improved at a low cost even in a virtualized server environment. The number of spare servers is reduced for improving the reliability and for saving a licensing fee for software on the spare servers. A server system comprises a plurality of physical servers on which a plurality of virtual servers run, a single standby server, a module for detecting an active virtual server, and a module for switching the correspondence of boot disks of virtualization modules for controlling virtual servers to the physical servers. When a physical server fails, the boot disk of the associated virtualization module is connected to a spare server to automatically activate on the spare server those virtual servers which have been active upon occurrence of the failure. | 02-25-2010 |
20100077389 | QUICK DEPLOYMENT METHOD - Provided is a deployment method for a server system that includes a storage system having logical disks where disk images are stored and plural servers connected to the storage system via a storage network, the method including the step of causing a deploy management module to copy the logical disks which store the disk images to a free area of the storage system before a deployment command is received. According to this invention, disk images are quickly deployed to servers. | 03-25-2010 |
20100088543 | Restarting Mehtod Using a Snapshot - The active server A | 04-08-2010 |
20100100611 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREFOR - Provided is a computer system that requires only a server administrator for construction thereof and configuration change thereof. A management server acquires connection destination interface identifiers set for external apparatuses, stores the connection destination interface identifiers into a first table, acquires specifications of server computers and identifiers of the server computers, stores the specifications and the identifiers into a second table, acquires specifications of external apparatuses, stores the specifications into the first table, receives a profile to be deployed onto one of the server computers, acquires a server computer satisfying the profile from the second table, acquires an external apparatus satisfying the profile from the first table, acquires a connection destination interface identifier from the first table, and notifies the server computer acquired from the second table of the acquired interface identifier, and the server computer updates an interface identifier of an interface by the received interface identifier. | 04-22-2010 |
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 |
20100169470 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTER SYSTEM - This invention provides a method for operational management in a management server of a computer system, the computer system comprising more than one server to be managed and an OS disk image adapted to operate on any one of the servers, the management server being used to manage association between the OS disk image and one of the servers to be managed. The operational management method includes acquiring I/O device recognition information that the OS disk image on a first server to be managed recognizes, then acquiring physical device configuration information that indicates an I/O device configuration of a second server to be managed, and determining, on the basis of the acquired I/O device recognition information and physical device configuration information, whether the OS disk image operates properly when loaded into the second server and executed. | 07-01-2010 |
20100180148 | TAKE OVER METHOD FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM - A proposed fail over method for taking over task that is preformed on an active server to a backup server, even when the active server and the backup server have different hardware configuration. The method for making a backup server take over task when a fault occurs on a active server, comprises steps of acquiring configuration information on the hardware in the active server and the backup server, acquiring information relating the hardware in the backup server with the hardware in the active server, selecting a backup server to take over the task that is executed on the active server where the fault occurred, creating logical partitions on the selected backup server, and taking over the task executed on the active server logical partitions, in the logical partitions created on the selected backup server. | 07-15-2010 |
20100281286 | METHOD, COMPUTING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR REDUCING POWER CONSUMPTION OF A COMPUTING SYSTEM BY RELOCATING JOBS AND DEACTIVATING IDLE SERVERS - In a computing system where multiple servers are connected through a network and one or more jobs are run, a power reduction facility of a supervisory server relocates jobs according to predetermined conditions, thereby reducing the amount of power consumed by the computing system. For relocating the jobs, the power reduction facility obtains server-related information such as the power properties of the servers constituting the computing system and job-related information such as performance requirements for the jobs which are run in the computing system, and searches for one or more jobs to be relocated and destination servers, based on these server-related information and job-related information, to the extent that the performance requirements for each job are fulfilled. Based on the search results, the jobs are relocated to the destination servers, and servers on which no job is running, as a result of the relocation, are powered off. | 11-04-2010 |
20100306419 | COMPUTER SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT SERVER, AND MISMATCHED CONNECTION CONFIGURATION DETECTION METHOD - The management of computers connected with I/O switch devices is simplified. A computer system S includes one or several computers (server devices), one or several I/O devices, one or several I/O switch devices, and a management server | 12-02-2010 |
20100318838 | METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR FAILOVER - In a computer system wherein plural servers are connected with an external disk device via a network, each server incorporates therein a logic partition module for configuring at least one logic partition in the server, and the operating system stored in the logic partition is booted by the boot disk of an external disk device, the failover operation is performed only for the logic partition affected by a failure when the task being executed by a working server is taken over by another server at the time of the failure occurring in the working server. | 12-16-2010 |
20100325477 | I/O DEVICE SWITCHING METHOD - An I/O device management table that manages the types of I/O devices connected to an I/O switch is provided, and one or plural unallocated I/O devices are defined and registered as standby I/O devices. When a failure occurs in any of I/O devices, the I/O device management table is used to select an I/O device of the same type as the failed I/O device from the standby I/O devices, and the selected I/O device is allocated to a computer to which the failed I/O device is connected. I/O device management can be eased at failure in a computer including an I/O switch device. | 12-23-2010 |
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 |
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 |
20110072080 | COMPUTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CHANGING I/O CONFIGURATION THEREOF - A computing system includes: first and second I/O interfaces that are associated with a server; and an I/O management unit that connects the server with the first and second I/O interfaces. The I/O management unit includes: an I/O buffer; an I/O mapping unit that stores an access request of the server to the first I/O interface in the I/O buffer in response to a change start request of the first I/O interface associated with the server to the second I/O interface; an I/O changing unit that associates the second I/O interface with the server; and an I/O synchronizing unit that converts the access request stored in the I/O buffer into an access request to the second I/O interface, in response to the completion of the association by the I/O changing unit, and executes the converted access request. | 03-24-2011 |
20110078474 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING POWER CONSUMPTION OF A MEMORY ACCORDING TO MAPPING - There is provided a method of controlling power consumption of a memory, which is executed in a computer system including operation server and a management server. The operation server includes one or more memory chips which are units to control the power consumption of the memory, a power control module for controlling power consumption of the memory chips, and a virtualization module for operating one or more virtual servers. The management server manages the mapping between the one or more virtual servers and the one or more memory chips. The method comprises the steps of instructing the operation server to change the power consumption of the one or more memory chips based on whether the obtained access information is capable of achieving predetermined target performance and the mapping information, and changing the power consumption of the one or more memory chips based on the instruction from the management server. | 03-31-2011 |
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 |
20110173491 | FAILURE RECOVERY METHOD - The reliability is improved at a low cost even in a virtualized server environment. The number of spare servers is reduced for improving the reliability and for saving a licensing fee for software on the spare servers. A server system comprises a plurality of physical servers on which a plurality of virtual servers run, a single standby server, a module for detecting an active virtual server, and a module for switching the correspondence of boot disks of virtualization modules for controlling virtual servers to the physical servers. When a physical server fails, the boot disk of the associated virtualization module is connected to a spare server to automatically activate on the spare server those virtual servers which have been active upon occurrence of the failure. | 07-14-2011 |
20110197192 | VIRTUAL COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - In the environment of a virtual server, there is a problem in that the contents in a disk area released correspondingly with the deletion of the virtual server may be read. According to the present invention, in a virtual computer system controlling a disk volume and a virtual server which is connected to the disk volume, to which the area of the disk volume is allocated as a virtual disk and which executes a process using the allocated virtual disk, the virtual computer system erases information stored in the virtual disk allocated to the virtual server to be deleted correspondingly with the deletion of the virtual server. According to another embodiment of the present invention, an administrative serve is provided to select a server system which is low in load from among plural server systems controlling virtual servers as a server system for erasing information stored in the virtual disk allocated to the virtual server to be deleted. | 08-11-2011 |
20110213939 | QUICK DEPLOYMENT METHOD - Provided is a deployment method for a server system that includes a storage system having logical disks where disk images are stored and plural servers connected to the storage system via a storage network, the method including the step of causing a deploy management module to copy the logical disks which store the disk images to a free area of the storage system before a deployment command is received. According to this invention, disk images are quickly deployed to servers. | 09-01-2011 |
20110271140 | METHOD AND COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR FAILOVER - In a computer system wherein plural servers are connected with an external disk device via a network, each server incorporates therein a logic partition module for configuring at least one logic partition in the server, and the operating system stored in the logic partition is booted by the boot disk of an external disk device, the failover operation is performed only for the logic partition affected by a failure when the task being executed by a working server is taken over by another server at the time of the failure occurring in the working server. | 11-03-2011 |
20110307728 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRIC POWER OF COMPUTER SYSTEM - To reduce the electric power consumption of the computer system, the computer system includes at least one server and at least one data processing apparatus, the data processing apparatus includes an electric power consumption state control module by which electric power consumption of the data processing apparatus can be changed, obtains a use relationship between each server and each processing apparatus included in the computer system, monitors a change in a state of the server, searches for a related data processing apparatus in the use relationship with the server, obtains a state of at least one related server in the use relationship with the related data processing apparatus, and determines whether an electric power consumption state of the related data processing apparatus is to be changed or not based on the state of the related server, and changes the electric power consumption state of the related data processing apparatus. | 12-15-2011 |
20120011392 | TAKE OVER METHOD FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM - A proposed fail over method for taking over task that is preformed on an active server to a backup server, even when the active server and the backup server have different hardware configuration. The method for making a backup server take over task when a fault occurs on a active server, comprises steps of acquiring configuration information on the hardware in the active server and the backup server, acquiring information relating the hardware in the backup server with the hardware in the active server, selecting a backup server to take over the task that is executed on the active server where the fault occurred, creating logical partitions on the selected backup server, and taking over the task executed on the active server logical partitions, in the logical partitions created on the selected backup server. | 01-12-2012 |
20120110069 | COMPUTING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CHANGING I/O CONFIGURATION THEREOF - A computing system includes: first and second I/O interfaces that are associated with a server; and an I/O management unit that connects the server with the first and second I/O interfaces. The I/O management unit includes: an I/O buffer; an I/O mapping unit that stores an access request of the server to the first I/O interface in the I/O buffer in response to a change start request of the first I/O interface associated with the server to the second I/O interface; an I/O changing unit that associates the second I/O interface with the server; and an I/O synchronizing unit that converts the access request stored in the I/O buffer into an access request to the second I/O interface, in response to the completion of the association by the I/O changing unit, and executes the converted access request. | 05-03-2012 |
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 |
20120192003 | COMPUTER STATUS MONITORING DEVICE, COMPUTER MONITORING SYSTEM AND COMPUTER STATUS MONITORING METHOD - In order to monitor the status of a computer by monitoring the power consumption of the computer, a monitoring server ( | 07-26-2012 |
20130067166 | VIRTUAL COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - In a virtual computer system controlling a disk volume and a virtual server which is connected to the disk volume, to which the area of the disk volume is allocated as a virtual disk and which executes a process using the allocated virtual disk, the virtual computer system erases information stored in the virtual disk allocated to the virtual server to be deleted correspondingly with the deletion of the virtual server. An administrative server may be provided to select a server system which is low in load from among plural server systems controlling virtual servers as a server system for erasing information stored in the virtual disk allocated to the virtual server to be deleted. | 03-14-2013 |
20130103976 | FAILURE RECORVERY METHOD - The reliability is improved at a low cost even in a virtualized server environment. The number of spare servers is reduced for improving the reliability and for saving a licensing fee for software on the spare servers. A server system comprises a plurality of physical servers on which a plurality of virtual servers run, a single standby server, a module for detecting an active virtual server, and a module for switching the correspondence of boot disks of virtualization modules for controlling virtual servers to the physical servers. When a physical server fails, the boot disk of the associated virtualization module is connected to a spare server to automatically activate on the spare server those virtual servers which have been active upon occurrence of the failure. | 04-25-2013 |
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 |
20130198370 | METHOD FOR VISUALIZING SERVER RELIABILITY, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND MANAGEMENT SERVER - The disclosed method quantifies the reliability of hardware and software installed in a physical server, and calculates an indication of the reliability of each of a plurality of physical servers. Configuration information, failure information, and running information of the hardware and software installed in the physical servers are collected while taking into account lifecycle information of the physical servers, and an indicator for the reliability of the hardware and software is quantified and calculated. Furthermore, an indicator of the reliability of a physical server as a whole is determined based on the indicators for the reliability of the hardware and the software. | 08-01-2013 |
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 |
20130283367 | METHOD OF MANAGING VIRTUAL COMPUTER, COMPUTER SYSTEM AND COMPUTER - A method of managing a virtual computer in a computer system including a plurality of computers, each of the computer storing a program for realizing a virtualization management module for managing a virtual computer, including a management storage area that is accessible only by the virtualization management module, storing start-up management information representing a correspondence among identification information on the virtual computer, identification information on a logical storage area storing a service program, and start-up authentication information for starting the virtual computer. The method including: a step of referring to the start-up management information to determine whether the start-up authentication information corresponding to the virtual computer exists, in a case of receiving a start-up request; a step of reading the service program from the logical storage area and executing the read service program, in a case of being determined the start-up authentication information exists. | 10-24-2013 |
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 |
20140207921 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREFOR - Provided is a computer system that requires only a server administrator for construction thereof arid configuration change thereof. A management server acquires connection destination interface identifiers set for external apparatuses, stores the connection destination interface identifiers into a first table, acquires specifications of server computers and identifiers of the server computers, stores the specifications and the identifiers into a second table, acquires specifications of external apparatuses, stores the specifications into the first table, receives a profile to be deployed onto one of the server computers, acquires a server computer satisfying the profile from the second table, acquires an external apparatus satisfying the profile from the first table, acquires a connection destination interface identifier from the first table, and notifies the server computer acquired from the second table of the acquired interface identifier, and the server computer updates an interface identifier of an interface by the received interface identifier. | 07-24-2014 |