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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2004
Erika Ayukawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Toyohisa Morita, Sagamihara, JP;
Takashi Oeda, Sagamihara, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus having a common storage accessible by a host includes: an NIC group connected with a plurality of communication paths connected to the host; an I/O processing unit for executing I/O processing of the common storage in response to an I/O request of the host; a storing unit for holding log information for each data transfer performed from/to the host; and a communication path selection unit for selecting, as a data transfer path, a communication path having actually indicated good I/O processing performance among communication paths used in the past data transfer approximate in a communication condition by referring to the log information held by the storing unit.