Hitachi, Ltd.

Akihisa Nagami

Yasunori Kaneda

Atsumi Terayama

Toru Tanaka

Fumio Noda

Noriko Nakajima

Shinji Kimura

Masayuki Yamamoto

Toshio Otani

Hirokazu Ikeda

Mitsuru Ikezawa

Daisuke Yokota

Ikuko Kobayashi

Koh Nakamichi

Yukinobu Mizoguchi

Masayuki Tosaka

Keisuke Hatasaki

Masayuki Sakata

Keisuke Matsumoto

Yoshinori Okami

Osamu Takada

Takashi Amano

Hiroshi Yamakawa

Kazuhide Aikoh

Masahiko Nakahara

Hiroji Shibuya

Naoko Ichikawa

Ryosuke Kondo

Kenji Ozoe

Shinji Osako

Nicklas Daniel Drochak, Ii

Utkarsh Jeevanlal Shah

Akshay Rao

A host computerthat manages a container built on an operating system includes a processor. The processoris configured to duplicate a second container based on a container image of a first container, and configure a hardware resource used by the first container such that the hardware resource can also be used by the second container. A nonvolatile storage deviceof the host computerstores container resource information in which the container image of the first container and the hardware resource used by the first container is associated, and the processoris configured to, when duplicating the second container based on the container image of the first container, duplicate the hardware resource associated with the container image of the first container, and configure the duplicated hardware resource such that the duplicated hardware resource can be used by the second container.

Container management apparatus, container management method, and nonvolatile recording medium

Systems and methods described herein are directed to a template based deployment system providing settings across platform and physical infrastructures. The infrastructure can involve a server, storage, and a network. The platform can include various types of operating systems. A management server may be configured to manage various system elements, server virtualization and platform deployment. The management server may use policies based on a platform template, server profile, host storage profile, and host network profile. Infrastructure configurations may be determined by the management server, according to the platform type, and platform option settings in the platform template. The management server deploys the infrastructure and platform on top of the infrastructure using platform template and images.

Method and apparatus for template based platform and infrastructure provisioning

A converged system and migration method capable of preventing system performance degradation with respect to data transfer is proposed. A first calculation node continues executing I/O processing in response to an I/O request from an application; and, upon execution of the I/O processing, the first calculation node issues an I/O processing event notice indicating a transfer status of data on which the I/O processing has been executed. When receiving a migration command from a migration management unit, a second calculation node judges whether or not data stored in a first I/O node is data which should be transferred, based on the I/O processing event notice; and then transfers the data, which should be transferred, to a third calculation node.

Converged system and storage system migration method

A non-virtual server and a virtual server make up the same tenant in an environment, in which virtual servers created by dividing a single physical server into a plurality of computer environments coexist with a non-virtual server that directly uses a single physical server as a computer environment without using server virtualization. A management computer is provided with virtual switch management information that shows a correlation between the virtual servers and an internal network to which a relevant virtual server connects, and physical switch management information that shows a correlation between the non-virtual server and an internal network to which the non-virtual server connects. The management computer creates a virtual server that belongs to the same tenant as a physical instance, identifies a first internal network to which the non-virtual server connects, and configures the tenant so that the relevant virtual server is connected to the first internal network.

Method of managing tenant network configuration in environment where virtual server and non-virtual server coexist

In a cloud environment that provides both virtual environment and non-virtual environment, in order to address a problem in that monitoring items that vary depending on usage cases must be managed, the present invention proposes a management method in which whether each server brings about a virtual environment or a non-virtual environment is managed by performing registration processing in cooperation with image management and a service resource registration task. In addition, user manager monitoring profile item management information for virtual/no-virtual environment is prepared, and with reference to this information, calculation methods, which specify monitoring items to be monitored out of monitoring items and infra monitoring items for each environment, are managed. With the use of these calculation methods, a user manager and an infrastructure manager may perform optimal monitorings.

Method for controlling monitoring items, management computer, and computer system in cloud system where virtual environment and non-virtual environment are mixed

When migrating a virtual server between a plurality of physical servers, a pre-migration connection relationship between the virtual server and a storage area used by the virtual server is maintained after the migration of the virtual server by using a cooperative mechanism between a plurality of storage apparatuses even if the storage area used by the virtual server is migrated between the plurality of storage apparatuses. A computer system and virtual server migration control method for the computer system is described.

Computer system and virtual server migration control method for computer system

A management system outputs catalog data, which has been created based on catalog-source data comprising data showing at least an application of a relevant resource with respect to each of multiple providable resources, and which shows the respective applications of the multiple resources, and receives a selection of a resource to be provided from the multiple resources. The management system provides the selected resource as a provided resource, and determines, based on a performance threshold configured with respect to the application of the provided resource, whether or not a performance measurement value, which relates to the processing performance of a network service using the provided resource and which can be monitored by the management system, is normal.

Management system and management method

An embodiment of this invention is an information storage system comprising a plurality of storage systems connected to be able to communicate. Each of the plurality of storage systems includes default storage system identification information which is the same to the plurality of storage systems, common volume identification information for uniquely identifying volumes provided by the plurality of storage systems to a host computer among the plurality of storage systems, and a controller configured to return the default storage system identification information to the host computer in response to a request from the host computer and to process a read or write request to a volume accompanying the common volume identification information from the host computer.

Information storage system including a plurality of storage systems that is managed using system and volume identification information and storage system management method for same

A storage apparatus of an embodiment of the invention including one or more storage drives for providing real storage resources and a controller for controlling the one or more storage drives and accesses from a host computer. The controller initializes real storage resources and manages the initialized real storage resources. The controller receives an instruction for allocating an initialized real storage resource to a first virtual storage resource accessed by the host computer. In response to the instruction, the controller allocates a first initialized real storage resource which has been initialized in advance prior to the instruction to the first virtual storage resource.

Storage apparatus, computer system, and control method for storage apparatus

A computer system is provided that is capable of reducing an administrator's operational errors by connecting a new server to a SAN and automating a SAN boot setting, and capable of lightening the administrator's task of checking for a wrong connection by detecting a wrong connection made when a new server is connected to an SNW connection device. Once a new server connected to a PnP SAN starts with a boot program obtained from a boot management server, the new server transmits configuration information on the new server to a resource management server. In response to a request from the resource management server, a storage device refers to PnP SAN information to transmit SAN information on a storage network connection device to which the new server is connected. The resource management server determines to add the new server to a resource group on the basis of the SAN information and requirement information. The resource management server sets the storage device and the new server for SAN-booting the new server.

Computer system, and method for managing resource pool information

A computer system in an embodiment of this invention comprises a plurality of host computers in which a plurality of host programs are executed, a plurality of storage systems including a plurality of volumes provided to the plurality of host programs, and a management system. Each of the plurality of host programs is located at a port of a host computer. Each of the plurality of volumes is located at a port of a storage system. The management system obtains information on bandwidths of a plurality of paths included in a data communication network among the plurality of storage systems and the plurality of host computers. The management system determines priority levels of individual candidate ports for new location of at least either one of a first host program and a first volume with reference to the information.

Computer system and management system therefor

It is an object of the present invention to provide a technique that can comprehensively manage plural kinds of network addresses allocated to virtual computers. In various embodiments, a MAC address, an IP address, and virtual communication interface identification information are allocated anew to a virtual computer to be created anew and the MAC address, the IP address, and the virtual communication interface identification information are set to be unable to be allocated anew.

Virtual computer management method and virtual computer management system

Provided is a method of using a dynamic chunk allocation function to efficiently carry out data volume migration. A storage apparatus according to the present invention includes first and second storage units and divides a storage extent in the second storage unit into chunks to add the chunks to a chunk pool to dynamically allocate the chunks in the chunk pool to a newly created logical data volume (see FIG.).

Storage apparatus, computer system, and data migration method

The virtual PC management system includes: a unit which acquires a power on/off state of a virtual machine from a computer via the network and stores it in a storage; a unit which acquires a power on/off state of a computer from the computer via the network and stores it into the storage; a unit which receives a start-of-use request for a virtual machine from the client machine and searches stored data of the storage unit for a computer which is in a power-on state and to which a virtual machine is not allocated, as an allocation candidate; a unit which allocates the virtual machine in accordance with the start-of-use request to the computer of the allocation candidate; and a unit which notifies, via the network, the computer of the allocation candidate of an instruction to turn on the power of the virtual machine.

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Yokohama, Japan

Akihisa Nagami