Hitachi, Ltd.

Kazuhiro Adachi

Tetsuhiro Goto

Takahiro Yoshida

Katsuhisa Fukuda

Masahiro Akahori

When a primary computer is taken over to a secondary computer in a redundancy configuration computer system where booting is performed via a storage area network (SAN), a management server delivers an information collecting/setting program to the secondary computer before the user's operating system of the secondary computer is started. This program assigns a unique ID (World Wide Name), assigned to the fiber channel port of the secondary computer to allow a software image to be taken over from the primary computer to the secondary computer.

Computer system and boot control method

When a primary computer is taken over to a secondary computer in a redundancy configuration computer system where booting is performed via a storage area network (SAN), a management server delivers an information collecting/setting program to the secondary computer before the user's operating system of the secondary computer is started. This program assigns a unique ID (World Wide Name), assigned to the fiber channel port of the primary computer, to the fiber channel port of the secondary computer to allow a software image to be taken over from the primary computer to the secondary computer.

When a primary computer is taken over to a secondary computer in a redundancy configuration computer system where booting is performed via a storage area network (SAN), a management server delivers an information collection/setting program to the secondary computer before the user's operating system of the secondary computer is started. This program assigns a unique ID (World Wide Name), assigned to the fibre channel port of the primary computer, to the fibre channel port of the secondary computer to allow a software image to be taken over from the primary computer to the secondary computer.

An information service providing method for providing an information service is provided, wherein the method includes the steps of: receiving a customer's request for the information service to be provided with; deciding the customer's utilization qualification with respect to the contents of the information service; determining the contents that is available to the customer according to the customer's utilization qualification among the contents of the information service that the customer requests to be provided with; and providing the customer with the determined contents of the information service.

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Hadano, Japan

Kazuhiro Adachi