Hitachi, Ltd.

Hiroyuki Igata

Daisuke Sasaki

Yoshifumi Takamoto

Hiroshi Furukawa

Toshiaki Arai

Kenichi Shimooka

Shinya Takuwa

Ichiro Shinohe

Kenichi Akiyama

Ayumi Takizawa

A server system has a blade system formed of a plurality of servers that are mounted in one or a plurality of stages within a single chassis so as to have a plurality of different functions, and a management server for managing said blade system. The management server has means for grouping the plurality of mounted servers to manage for each function, means for managing the deployment of the plurality of servers within the chassis, and deployment changing means for changing the functions of the plurality servers and transposing the functions to change the deployment of the servers within the chassis. Thus, the deployment changing means makes the servers of each of the plurality of functions be arrayed in regular order within the chassis.

Arrangements to implement a scale-up service

Deployment technique that can distribute OS images at a high speed, and which includes a deployment machine (hereafter abbreviated to 'DM'), a plurality of servers which are connected to the DM via a first communications network, and a storage system which is connected to the DM and the plurality of servers via a second communications network. The storage system includes a plurality of server storage devices that respectively correspond to the plurality of servers, and an original storage device in which an OS image is stored. The DM transmits a first instruction to produce the OS image inside the original storage device in each of the plurality of server storage devices to the storage system, and thereafter, the respective servers read the OS images in the server storage devices corresponding to themselves via the second communications network, and start the OS.

Machine and method for deployment of OS image

A management system of difference data among servers compares files stored a first server and files stored in a second server. Information associates each file with a software product that produced the file. Contents of files that are stored in both the first server and in the second server are compared. If two files are judged to be different in contents, then the product name of the software product associated with file is output.

Management system of difference data among servers and control method of information processing apparatus

The present invention realizes configuration management, failure monitoring and control of hardware resources in an open architecture computer on which a plurality of OSs run. A management agentrun on a partitionperforms communication with a management console, management of data on hardware and software failure occurred in the partition, and communication with a partitioning control unit. The partitioning control unitutilizes partition configuration informationto manage and control hardware allocated to each partition, and to intermediate communication between the hardwareand the management agents. A hardware data collection unitmanages configuration information of all the hardware in the computer, and monitors status of and failures in the hardware.

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Yamato, Japan

Hiroyuki Igata