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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2010

Filed:

Dec. 12, 2006
Applicants:

Tetsuya Maruyama, Kawasaki, JP;

Masayasu Asano, Yokohama, JP;

Masayuki Yamamoto, Sagamihara, JP;

Yuichi Taguchi, Sagamihara, JP;

Inventors:

Tetsuya Maruyama, Kawasaki, JP;

Masayasu Asano, Yokohama, JP;

Masayuki Yamamoto, Sagamihara, JP;

Yuichi Taguchi, Sagamihara, JP;

Assignee:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 13/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In a computer system an object of this invention is to reduce physical resource contentions during the parallel migration of volumes. The computer system of this invention has the host computers, the storage systems and the storage management server. When parallelly migrating two or more volumes of data in the storage systems to the same number of other volumes, the storage management server selects volumes having few physical conflicts of the controllers or storage devices in the storage systems and executes the parallel migration operation.


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