Storage system and storage control method
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorsKenta Sato, Akira Deguchi, Tomohiro Kawaguchi
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Abstract
A storage system and storage control method are provided in which a plurality of volumes to be processed by a storage control unit are distributed and evacuated in a normal storage control unit without recovering redundancy of the storage control unit having decreased redundancy, and the storage control unit itself having the decreased redundancy is deleted after the evacuating is completed, and thus reservation information processing resources for guaranteeing recoverability of the redundancy become unnecessary.
Claims14
A storage system comprising a plurality of storage nodes constituting a cluster,
- a storage apparatus storing data,
- a cluster control unit controlling the storage system, and
- a storage control unit, in a storage node of the plurality of storage nodes, providing a storage area in units of volume to a host apparatus by using the storage apparatus and storing data in the storage apparatus in response to an input/output (I/O) request from the host apparatus,
- the storage control unit in the storage node is configured to constitute a first storage control unit group with a storage control unit of another storage node in the cluster,
- wherein a storage control unit of the first storage control unit group processes the I/O request from the host apparatus as a storage control unit in an active mode and another storage control unit of the first storage control unit group takes over processes of the storage control unit in the active mode, and
- wherein the cluster control unit obtains information about a volume handled by the first storage control unit group, determines a second storage control unit group with respect to the volume about which the information is obtained, and migrates the volume handled by the first storage control unit group from a storage control unit within the first storage control unit group to a storage control unit of the second storage control unit group.
In a storage system having a plurality of storage nodes constituting a cluster, a storage apparatus storing data, a cluster control unit controlling the storage system, and a storage control unit, in a storage node of the plurality of storage nodes, providing a storage area in units of volume to a host apparatus by using the storage apparatus and storing data in the storage apparatus in response to an input/output (I/O) request from the host apparatus, wherein the first storage control unit in the storage node is configured to constitute a storage control unit group with a storage control unit of another storage node in the cluster, a method comprising the steps of:
- processing, by a storage control unit of the first storage control unit group, the I/O request from the host apparatus as a storage control unit in an active mode;
- taking over processing, by another first storage control unit of the storage control unit group, of the storage control unit in the active mode, and
- obtaining, by the cluster control unit, information about a volume handled by the first storage control unit group, determining a second storage control unit group with respect to the volume about which the information is obtained, and migrating the volume handled by the first storage control unit group from a storage control unit within the first storage control unit group to a storage control unit of the second storage control unit group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.