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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2023
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Jun Mizuno, Tokyo, JP;
HITACHI VANTARA, LTD., Kanagawa-Ken, JP;
Abstract
A data migration apparatus and method for performing low cost data migration while preventing stoppages during migration of a job net between cloud services by acquiring an execution schedule of the job net, estimate execution time of each of the jobs, and further estimate volume copy time from a first to a second cloud service regarding each of the volumes to be used; calculate a starting time of each job on the basis of the execution schedule and time of each job; and calculate a starting time of volume copy on the basis of the calculated starting time of day of each job and the volume copy time of each volume, so that the volume copy of each volume from the first to the second cloud service will start at the starting time of the volume copy which has been calculated regarding each relevant volume.