US 2006/0143255 A1Published application

Computer system

AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.

InventorsIchiro Shinohe, Ayumi Takizawa, Yoshifumi Takamoto, Daisuke Sasaki, Hiroyuki Igata, Shinya Takuwa

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Abstract

A server system has a blade system formed of a plurality of servers that are mounted in one or a plurality of stages within a single chassis so as to have a plurality of different functions, and a management server for managing said blade system. The management server has means for grouping the plurality of mounted servers to manage for each function, means for managing the deployment of the plurality of servers within the chassis, and deployment changing means for changing the functions of the plurality servers and transposing the functions to change the deployment of the servers within the chassis. Thus, the deployment changing means makes the servers of each of the plurality of functions be arrayed in regular order within the chassis.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A computer system comprising:

a plurality of computer units each including a plurality of computers between which data communication is made at a faster speed than between said computer units, said computers including at least a computer for executing a first function and a computer for executing a second function;
and
a management server for managing said plurality of computers of each of said units, wherein said management server comprises:
means for allocating said first function to free computer within a certain one of said computer units in case said free computers are included within said same computer unit, in order to increase the number of computers to which said first function that can be allowed to allocate is to be allocated within said same computer unit;
and
means for reallocating said second function, which is already allocated to one of said computers included within said same computer unit, to one of said computers included within another computer unit to which said second function can be allowed to allocate in case said free computers are not included within said same computer unit so that the number of computers for executing said first function cannot be increased, and for allocating said first function to said computer of which said original second function has been moved from said same computer unit to said other computer unit by said reallocation.

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A method of allocating functions to blades, said method being used in a server system that comprises:

a blade system having a plurality of blade servers each of which has a plurality of blades that constitute one logic computer;
and
a management server for managing said functions that are executed by said blade servers, said management server allocating said functions to said blades arranged in a predetermined direction, said management server comprising the steps of:
holding blade allocation information for managing the status of allocation of said functions to said respective blades within each of said blade servers;
and when any one of said functions is freshly allocated to said blade that are closely coupled within a certain one of said blade servers,
allocating said function to said blades sequentially beginning with one blade located at one end of the sequence of blades included within said blade server by referring to said blade allocation information.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.