Method and system for employing and managing storage
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorsShinichi Hoshino, Nobuyuki Yamashita, Hiroshi Nojima
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Abstract
A storage employing and managing system, under the environment in which a user performs the setting of storage apparatuses, acquires the condition for the storage apparatus setting in the form of a policy from a user, acquires configuration information of the storage apparatuses, determines a combination of the settings satisfying the policy acquired from the user in the configuration information of the storage apparatuses, generates parameters for tools for manipulating the storage apparatuses such that the combination is set in the storage apparatuses, and calls the tools using the parameters to perform the setting of the storage apparatuses.
Claims11
A storage employing and managing method of setting storage apparatuses in accordance with parameters with respect to storage apparatuses including at least a storage, a switch and a server, said method comprising the steps of:
- acquiring the condition for setting of storage apparatuses, inputted by a user, in the form of a policy;
- acquiring configuration information of said storage apparatuses;
- determining a combination of settings satisfying the policy by referring to the configuration information of said storage apparatuses;
- generating parameters for tools for manipulating said storage apparatuses such that the combination is set in said storage apparatuses;
- and
- calling said tools using the parameters to set said storage apparatuses.
A storage employing and managing system for setting storage apparatuses in accordance with parameters with respect to storage apparatuses including at least a storage, a switch and a server, said system comprising:
- means for acquiring the condition for setting of storage apparatuses, inputted by a user, in the form of a policy;
- means for acquiring configuration information of said storage apparatuses;
- means for determining a combination of settings satisfying the policy by referring to the configuration information of said storage apparatuses;
- means for generating parameters for tools for manipulating said storage apparatuses such that the combination is set in said storage apparatuses;
- and
- means for calling said tools using the parameters to set said storage apparatuses.
A storage employing and managing program for implementing a method of setting storage apparatuses in accordance with parameters with respect to storage apparatuses including at least a storage, a switch and a server, said method comprising the steps of:
- acquiring the condition for setting of storage apparatuses, inputted by a user, in the form of a policy;
- acquiring configuration information of said storage apparatuses;
- determining a combination of settings satisfying the policy by referring to the configuration information of said storage apparatuses;
- generating parameters for tools for manipulating said storage apparatuses such that the combination is set in said storage apparatuses;
- and
- calling said tools using the parameters to set said storage apparatuses.
A computer-readable recording medium having, recorded therein, a storage employing and managing program for implementing a method of setting storage apparatuses in accordance with parameters with respect to storage apparatuses including at least a storage, a switch and a server, said method comprising the steps of:
- acquiring the condition for setting of storage apparatuses, inputted by a user, in the form of a policy;
- acquiring configuration information of said storage apparatuses;
- determining a combination of settings satisfying the policy by referring to the configuration information of said storage apparatuses;
- generating parameters for tools for manipulating said storage apparatuses such that the combination is set in said storage apparatuses;
- and
- calling said tools using the parameters to set said storage apparatuses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.