Hitachi, Ltd.

Takahiro Kito

Koji Nagata

Ran Ogata

Tomohiro Kawaguchi

Hiroshi Nasu

Naoyuki Masuda

Kosuke Sakai

Generating a snapshot of a volume storing a snapshot and Suppressing response time. When receiving from a host computer write data to be written into a target slot in a target volume among multiple volumes, a processor adds to management information a fact that data in the target slot in the target volume has not been finalized, writes the write data into a target cache area in a memory, and transmits a response to the host computer. Before referring to the target data in the target slot of the target volume, the processor determines whether or not the target data has been finalized on the basis of the management information. When the target data is determined as not having been finalized, the processor performs a finalization process for finalizing the target data and refers the target data.

Storage apparatus and recording medium

The access from a host computer to a storage system is continued before and after data migration in the storage system. A first controller allocates a first logical storage area to a specific virtual storage area, stores first association information indicating the specific virtual storage area and the first logical storage area, and sends the first association information to the host computer. The first controller and the second controller perform data migration from the first logical storage area to a second logical storage area. The first controller releases the first logical storage area from the specific virtual storage area and reflects the release in the first association information. The second controller allocates the second logical storage area to the specific virtual storage area, stores second association information indicating the specific virtual storage area and the second logical storage area, and sends the second association information to the host computer.

Storage system, storage control method, and computer system

A storage system comprises a storage device from which a physical storage area is created for storing data processed in an external apparatus, a thin provisioning controller creating a physical storage area pool with a plurality of unit physical storage areas from the physical storage area, and creating a logical volume from the physical storage area pool, and a snapshot controller designating the logical volume as a primary volume, defining a secondary volume which is a partner of the primary volume as a combination of the primary volume and difference data, assigning unused one of the unit physical storage areas to the area into which the difference data is to be stored, and setting a volume pair created with the primary volume and the secondary volume into a synchronizing state and a non-synchronizing state.

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Takahiro Kito