Hitachi, Ltd.

Kenichi Kihara

Shigeru Miyake

Satoru Tezuka

Masayasu Asano

Hiroshi Furukawa

Masayuki Yamamoto

Yuichi Taguchi

Toshiaki Hirata

Satoru Matsumura

Hideomi Idei

Chiho Kitahara

Shihoko Taguchi

Yusuke Izumida

Yousuke Tsuyuki

Hikari Namba

Alberto Suzano

Koichi Kimura

Nobuhiro Maki

Junichi Hara

Takaki Kuroda

Masahide Sato

Keiichi Nakane

Naomichi Nonaka

Kenichi Yoshida

Atsushi Murase

Taro Inoue

Hiromichi Itoh

Toru Horimoto

Masanori Honda

Toshihiko Fukuda

Hideaki Ishida

Junji Inaba

Reiko Iwasaki

Yoichiro Sakurai

Katsuo Nakashima

A computer system of the present invention selects and executes an appropriate action in a case where capacity of a pool that provides a real storage area to a virtual logical volume is insufficient. A management computer determines, based on a utilization status of each pool, whether or not there exists a prescribed pool that requires pool size expansion. The management computer, in a case where the prescribed pool is detected, selects at least any one of a volume addition method for adding an unused real volume to the prescribed pool and a data migration method for migrating data of the virtual logical volume to another pool other than the prescribed pool, and expands a pool size of the prescribed pool in accordance with the selected method.

Computer system and computer system management method for adding an unused real volume to a pool

A control device of a storage system that includes a plurality of storage devices including a first type of storage device, including: a memory which stores an archive deadline of archive target data which are a target of archiving by the storage system and a warranty deadline which is a quality warranty deadline of parity groups configured by two or more of the first type of storage devices; a controller which stores the archive target data in the parity groups configured by two or more of the first type of storage device, and wherein the parity group storing the archive target data is a parity group whose warranty deadline is near the archive deadline of the archive target data, among a plurality of the parity groups.

Control device of a storage system comprising storage devices of a plurality of types

The system of the present invention enhances the security of settings and operations in a storage device, and copes with numerous changes of the operational status of work executed within a computer system. When it becomes necessary to issue an operating command to the storage, storage operation propriety is determined on the basis of the operational status of the work and definition of operation permission for each work operation state.

Computer system comprising storage operation permission management

A control device of a storage system including a CPU which receives input information including at least a size and an archive deadline of data which is stored in storage devices; wherein data management information includes a write threshold value regarding one type of storage devices, the write threshold value indicating a write limit number to the one type of storage devices, wherein the CPU: selects a storage device which stores data corresponding to the information which is input to an input device, based on the information which is input to the input device and the data management information which is stored in the memory; CPU stores to the selected storage device, the data corresponding to the information which is input to the input device; and, registers to the data management information in the memory, at least one of the information which is input to the input device.

The control device acquires the archive deadline of archive target data and acquires, for storage devices of a plurality of types, a warranty deadline for the quality of data stored by the storage device and the unit cost which is the cost for each predetermined storage size of the storage device. The storage control device is a storage device which acquires a data migration cost and which obtains a storage destination for the archive target data from storage devices of a plurality of types on the basis of the archive deadline, warranty deadline, unit cost and data migration cost thus acquired. The storage control device selects a storage device for which the total cost is minimum when the archive target data is archived until the archive deadline.

In an environment in which programs are executed on a plurality of computers connected to a network, a program distribution managing system facilitates, when a reference relationship exists between programs on mutually different execution computers, management for distribution and deletion of applications. The system includes a distribution information supplier to supply information indicating a status of distribution of a program to be executed on either one of the computers, a reference information supplier to supply information concerning a type of the execution program as a reference destination of the program, and a reference destination managing section to acquire a location to which the execution program as a reference destination of the execution program is distributed according to information from the distribution information supplier and information from the reference information supplier.

System for managing distribution of programs

To reduce the burden of labor relating to setting and changing management items in an environment where a plurality of management tools are used. In one specific embodiment, management toolscontrol management targetson the basis of retained management definition information (management items). A user I/F unitdisplays operations management informationand selects an editing class and management items of the management toolsby an instruction of a user, and an editing instruction unitsends the editing class and the management items to an editing execution unitand conducts editing of the management items. A status monitoring unitmonitors status, a change detection unitdetects a status change and notifies the editing instruction unit, and the editing instruction unitreceives this notification and instructs editing processing with respect to management items relating to the management targets

Control system and method for management items

The disclosed is a method and system for storing a stencil for a job definition statement and data prescribing a user interface for job definition statement setup, generating data for executing a process for generating a job definition statement based on the contents set by a user via the user interface in accordance with the stencil for the job definition statement and the data prescribing the user interface for job definition statement setup, and generating a job definition statement by executing the process in accordance with the generated data.

Method and system for job management

When replacing a disk device that has passed over a warranty expiration date with a new disk device, data necessary to be stored thereafter among the data that is recorded in the device must be transferred to another disk device, to thereby require a time for processing. A storage system includes: a storage device having a plurality of disk drives that stores data; and a data storage managing device which is connected to the storage device and has a data storage managing module that manages the storage of the data in the storage device, in which the data storage managing module compares a retention date of the data to be stored with a warranty expiration date of the disk drive, selects a disk drive that stores the data as the result of the comparison, and stores the data in the selected disk drive.

Data storage system

An integrated network installation system which comprises an execution section having function specification means for specifying a network function of an information processor connected to a network, and preparation means for preparing installation data corresponding to the network function of the information processor specified by the specification means and a display section for connecting the information processor to the network based on the installation data from the execution section, and displaying it.

Integrated network installation system

In a network development support system, it is supported that logical hierarchic structure, physical parameters, and logical parameters of a network are integrally designed in an environment in which relationships therebetween can be confirmed. Definition of logical hierarchic structure of the network is accepted in the form of a tree of containers in a container tree window. Physical and logical parameters are accepted in physical and logical object windows, respectively. The physical and logical object windows are created in association with containers of the container trees.

Network development support system

A network operating information setting system includes a design device, an automatic setting device and a network device. The design device has the function of producing a command chain of information which an operator designs using a GUI (Graphical User Interface) in order to store the command chain thus produced in a storage medium such as a floppy disk. In addition, the design device also has the function of reading out data from the storage medium in order to display the data thus read out. The automatic setting device has the function of reading out the command chain from the storage medium in order to transmit the command chain thus read out to the network device through a data transmission line. In this connection, an inverse command chain may be produced which is used to restore the network operating information to the original information in the network device. In addition, the automatic setting device has both the function of reading out data from the network device and the function of producing production commands for the data thus read out from the data.

Network operating information system having design device and automatic

Parameters representing types of machines to be connected to a network, connection types thereof to the network, and operation modes thereof in the network system are set from an information processing apparatus. The obtained parameters are written as parameter files on a recording medium. In each network machine, a network system is automatically constructed by referencing the files. Consequently, the parameter setting operations for the installation of the machine are simplified and there is achieved automation of operations in each network machine.

Network integrated construction system, method of installing network

An integrated network installation system which comprises an execution section having function specification means for specifying a network function of an information processor connected to a network, and preparation means for preparing installation data corresponding to the network function of the information processor specified by the specification means and a display section for connecting the information processor to the network based on the installation data from the execution section and displaying it.

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Kenichi Kihara