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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2019
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Tsukasa Shibayama, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroto Ebara, Tokyo, JP;
Akiyoshi Tsuchiya, Tokyo, JP;
Tomohiro Kawaguchi, Tokyo, JP;
HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a storage system includes a representative node and a plurality of general nodes including a plurality of resources. Each of the general nodes stores resource status information indicating respective statuses of the plurality of resources in a first storage unit thereof. The representative node stores resource status information collected from the plurality of general nodes in a second storage unit thereof, decides whether to acquire the resource status information from the first storage unit of the general node or to acquire the resource status information from the second storage unit based on a received request, and transmits the resource status information acquired from a decided acquisition destination to an issuing source of the request.