Hitachi, Ltd.

Kiichi Sato

Osamu Onodera

Makiko Shinohara

Akio Sasaki

Takashi Morikawa

Tetuji Ogawa

System storing plural I/O arrangement information wherein each I/O

A connection method of a plurality of input/output channels between a plurality of sub-channels of an information processing system having a virtual machine running on a physical machine under control of a hypervisor and a plurality of devices. The method includes issuing from the hypervisor a command for setting configuration information defining a plurality of configuration structures between the sub-channels set for the respective virtual machines and the devices in a storage device and acquiring configuration information containing the sub-channel corresponding to a designated device from the configuration information corresponding to one of the virtual machines based on the device designation contained in the input/output command from the one virtual machine. The virtual machines are enabled after the issuance of the set command and before the issuance of the input/output command. The corresponding configuration information is searched by using ID information of the virtual machine which issued the input/output command in order to execute the step so that one of a plurality of channel paths between a plurality of devices and the sub-channels is selected to execute the input/output designated by the input/output command.

Method and apparatus for connecting i/o channels between sub-channels

In an input/output process device for controlling data transfer between a central processing unit and an input/output device through a channel by use of any of a plurality of input/output control devices connected to the input/output device, a memory unit is disposed so as to store information representing the address of the input/output control device in association with an identification number of the channels connected to the input/output control device. When selecting the channel for data transfer, the input/output process device reads out the information representing the address of the input/output control device from the memory unit and generates the address for the input/output control device on the basis of the information read out.

Input/output system capable of allotting addresses to a plurality of

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Hadano, Japan

Kiichi Sato