Hitachi, Ltd.

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Hitachi Information Network, Ltd.

Shuji Fujino

Toshiaki Hirata

Akihiro Urano

Satoshi Miyazaki

Toshio Sato

Mitsugu Yamada

Shinji Morita

Hidetomo Nakano

Takashi Yoshimaru

Daisuke Miyazaki

Norio Yamamura

Shingo Utsuki

Eiji Matsumura

Miki Niimura

Kazuyoshi Morikawa

Yasuhiro Tanaka

Yutaka Kudo

Hideo Ohata

Kiminori Sugauchi

Futoshi Haga

Takashi Abe

Masato Saito

Tadashi Numanoi

Takashi Kagei

Keizo Mizuguchi

Hiromi Sutou

Katsutaka Inoue

Yasushi Yamasaki

Kenya Nishiki

Yoshinori Ooba

Takashi Yamakabe

Shinichi Nakazaki

Tsutomu Ando

Yuji Akamatsu

In one embodiment, a method for allocating programs to resources suited to operating conditions thereof comprises generating composition management information for a plurality of resources based on management information relating to performance and capacity of each of the resources. The composition management information includes identification information for the resources used by a plurality of programs. The method further comprises searching for and locating the composition management information of a resource identified by the identification information for each of the programs, based on the composition management information of the resources, and generating program information which associates composition management information of each of the programs with the composition management information of the located resource; and outputting information indicating that a resource abnormality has occurred with one of the programs, in cases where the composition management information of the resource which is associated with the program in the program information corresponds to one or more rules for detecting a resource abnormality in the program.

System and method for allocating virtual resources to application based on the connectivity relation among the virtual resources

Provided is a computer system including a host computer, a storage system, and a management computer, in which the storage system receives data I/O request to virtual logical volumes and data I/O request to one or more real logical volumes, each of the virtual logical volumes is allocated to one of one or more pools, storage areas of physical storage systems are allocated to all storage areas defined as the pools, and when a performance problem has occurred in one of the virtual logical volumes, the management computer selects the one of the virtual logical volumes, and selects a pool other than the pool to which the selected virtual logical volume is allocated and the real logical volumes as a migration destination of the selected virtual logical volume, to thereby prevent a performance problem from being caused by interference among the virtual logical volumes sharing the pool.

Computer system for determining and displaying performance problems from first storage devices and based on the problems, selecting a migration destination to other secondary storage devices that are operated independently thereof, from the first storage devices

An information output method for displaying information of a computer system executing a plurality of tasks including: reading out task construction information corresponding to a task executed by the computer system from a storage device and displaying by an output device the task construction information in a task construction display area inside an output area; reading out logical construction information associated with the task construction information from the storage device and displaying by the output device the logical construction information in a logical construction display area inside the output area; and reading out physical construction information associated with the logical construction information from the storage device and displaying by the output device the physical construction information in a physical construction display area inside the output area.

Method, system and program of outputting information

At least one processor for executing a plurality of programs, a storage area which is capable of storing an information element temporarily, and a storage device which is capable of storing the information element, are provided. A certain level of importance is associated with each of the programs themselves or a performance requirement of each program. When a certain information element is output as a result of execution of a certain program from among the plurality of programs, the certain information element is written into the storage area. Then, a plurality of information elements written in the storage area is output to the storage device side in order of precedence from the information element of the executed program, or the performance requirement thereof, having the highest level of importance.

Information processing method and system

A computer resource control system for running business applications on virtual computers within a business computer by using computer, virtual computer, network, and storage resources, the system comprises a collection process section for periodically collecting the dynamically changing information about the use of each resource when business applications run on the virtual computers within the business computer; a resource recovery process section for calculating the amounts of resources required for the operations of the business applications periodically in accordance with the dynamically changing information about the use of each resource, which is gathered by the collection process section, allocating the calculated amounts of resources to the resources of each virtual computer, and recovering any extra resources; and a resource allocation process section for allocating the extra resources, which are recovered by the resource recovery process section, to the virtual computers in accordance with the priorities of the business applications.

Redistribution of unused resources assigned to a first virtual computer having usage below a predetermined threshold to a second virtual computer

Digital content is stored in a logical volume provided in a storage system connected to a communications network. A sub-management computer selects a destination computer forming a supply destination for digital content from a plurality of business computers or virtual computers, further selects the address information corresponding to the selected destination computer from a plurality of address information components, and allocates the selected address information to the digital content itself or to the storage device.

System and method for managing supply of digital content

A data-processing system has at least one computer executing at least one application program and at least one storage device. The computer and the at least one storage device storing data are communicatively connected via a plurality of data transfer paths assigned to each program. A data-processing apparatus is communicatively connected to the data-processing system. The data-processing apparatus includes a system configuration storage unit, an abnormality detection information reception unit, an inspection target selection unit and an inspection result storage unit. The system configuration storage unit stores, in a correlated manner, each component of the data-processing system constituting each data transfer path and a program using each component as a data transfer path. The abnormality detection information reception unit receives abnormality detection information indicating that an abnormality is detected while executing an application program, from the computer. The inspection target selection unit selects an inspection target among the each component as a component correlated with the largest number of application programs. The inspection result storage unit stores a result of inspection for a component selected as the inspection target.

Method and system for managing programs in data-processing system

The method includes confirmation policy processing for acquiring confirmation item information indicating a condition every confirmation item to distinguish a cause at time of fault occurrence, reading presumed cause information indicating a presumed cause corresponding to each pattern in the confirmation item information when a confirmation item value of a confirmation object satisfies a condition in the confirmation item information, and acquiring a presumed cause corresponding to the confirmation item information of the condition; execution policy processing for executing contents of a measure against the presumed cause read from execution policy information; evaluation policy processing for acquiring evaluation item information to evaluate a measure result, judging an effect of the executed measure based on whether an evaluation item value of an evaluation object is in a stable operation range, and storing a judging result; and controlling an autonomous policy cycle for conducting the confirmation, execution and evaluation policy processing.

Method for controlling a policy

The present invention is capable of automatically changing resource allocation based on a result of measurement of performance information conforming to the service level objective corresponding to various kinds of applications. For the change of resource allocation, in accordance with a generated resource allocation changing rules and the structure information, the present invention comprises: a performance measurement item template to generate a measurement item of the performance information from the structure information by storing a resource table including a server, network, and storage, an application table indicating structural elements of applications operating on these resources, and an allocation table to applications of resources; a performance measurement engine for measuring the measurement item of this performance information with the performance measurement engine; and a means for generating resource allocation changing rules used for resource allocation change from the structure information.

System, method and program for allocating computer resources

To enable favorable control of the storage of electronic information, a management device connected communicably to one or more storage control devices that are connected communicably to at least one of a plurality of storage devices refers to resource information relating to the usage condition of at least one hardware resource from among the one or more storage control devices, specifies an unused part of the hardware resource from the resource information, and sets a storage virtual computer, which serves as a virtual computer to which all or a part of the specified unused part is allocated, in at least one of the one or more storage control devices.

Storage control method and system

In a storage system including an information processing apparatus and a storage apparatus that is communicably connected to the information processing apparatus via a communication network and that writes or reads data to or from a storage device in response to a data write/read request transmitted from the information processing apparatus, real resource operations are managed, with virtual resources set by assigning the real resources and the settings changed in conformity with the operating status of the real resources.

System for and method of managing resource operations

A method of allocating programs to resources is provided. The method includes generating composition management information for a plurality of resources based on management information relating to performance and capacity of each of the resources. The composition management information includes identification information for the resources used by a plurality of programs. The method also includes searching for and locating the composition management information of a resource identified by the identification information for each of the programs, based on the composition management information of the resources. The method further includes generating program information which associates composition management information of the programs and the located resource together. Furthermore, the method includes outputting information indicating that a resource abnormality has occurred with one of the programs, where the composition management information of the resource associated with the program corresponds to one or more rules for detecting a resource abnormality in the program.

Method for allocating programs

A displaying method that makes the following possible: Executing an operation from either of two approaches, i.e. a processing oriented to an object to be processed or a processing oriented to a task to be processed, and effectively dealing with a lot of tasks and various types of objects, and performing a flexible operation. In the displaying method in an information processing apparatus, both displays, i.e. a display intended for selecting the task to be processed and a display intended for selecting the object to be processed, are displayed on a display apparatus in such a manner that the two displays are distributed into two tabs, respectively. This condition makes it possible to select the task to be processed with a selection of the tabs, and also makes it possible to execute in an arbitrary order the processing oriented to the task and the processing oriented to the object.

Displaying method in information processing apparatus that permits execution of either object or task oriented processings

An information management system and method reduces the amount of data generated and transmitted for analysis and observation over a first network. An information management sub-system, includes a manager that analyzes or observes data, which is collected by multiple agents connected therewith through the first network. A sub-manager is connected with the agents via a second network, and manages data for the targets of management (such as, various kinds of information data collected by the agents, programs for collecting/analyzing the collected data, and data of analysis results thereof) in a storage, which is also connected with the second network, and which is used commonly between the sub-manager and the agents.

Information management system and a method thereof

In a computer system to which a plurality of computers are connected, a managing computer manages operations performed in the respective computers in an integrated manner, or manages the operations in relation to the computers themselves. As a result, problems occurring in the processes can be easily solved, and furthermore a load on a network is reduced. The managing computer manages a series of operations in an integrated manner in which when an operation is executed by each of the plurality of computers, or by the respective computers in combination with each other, the managing computer performs an operation designated when a specific event happens to occur on a computer. The managing computer displays each of the operations executed on the computers by a symbol; displays an execution sequence of the operations by a link with a direction among symbols; and further displays an execution condition of the computer by a color of a symbol. As a consequence, both an operation monitor screen and a computer monitor screen are mutually switched to display the switched monitor screen while setting a relationship between the computers and the operations, and the relationship between the operations and the computers are clearly represented.

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