US 2014/0007099 A1Published application

Method and apparatus to improve efficiency in the use of resources in data center

AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.

InventorHironori EMARU

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Abstract

A method of managing use of resources in data center comprises: determining whether first storage subsystem includes a virtual volume or a storage pool that uses a physical volume of second storage subsystem and, if yes, migrating the physical volume to first storage subsystem; determining whether any storage subsystem includes a virtual volume created directly from a physical volume and, if yes, migrating the virtual volume to another virtual volume provisioned from the storage pool of the storage subsystem; and determining whether all virtual volumes satisfy a preset service level objective and, if no, then selecting a virtual machine which has a smallest virtual machine disk file and selecting a storage pool having a largest free space, and then selecting a virtual volume of the storage subsystem which has the selected storage pool and migrating the virtual machine disk file of the selected virtual machine to the selected virtual volume.

Claims1

Dependent claims

A computer system comprising:

a first platform including a first server which executes a first virtual machine and a first storage system which provides a first virtual volume whose virtual storage area corresponds to a storage area of first storage drives in the first storage system;
a second platform including a second server which executes a second virtual machine and a second storage system which provides a second virtual volume whose virtual storage area corresponds to a storage area of second storage devices in the second storage system;
and
a management computer coupled to the first platform and the second platform;
wherein the first storage system in the first platform and the second storage system in the second platform configure a virtualized storage system to make the first virtual machine to be able to use either the first virtual volume or the second virtual volume, and
wherein the management computer checks whether the first virtual volume in the first platform uses the first virtual volume in the second platform, and, if the first virtual machine in the first platform uses the first virtual volume in the second, instructs to move the first virtual machine from the first server to the second server.

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Facts

Application: 14/017,647Filed 4 Sep 2013
Priority: 19 Aug 2011
Published: 2 Jan 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06F 9/45533
Emulation; Interpretation; Software simulation, e.g. virtualisation or emulation of application or operating system execution engines:…
G06F 3/0607
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. storage management: by facilitating the process of upgrading existing storage systems, e.g. for…
G06F 3/0647
Horizontal data movement in storage systems, i.e. moving data in between storage devices or systems: migration mechanisms
G06F 3/067
Adopting a particular infrastructure: distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]

Family

Application13/213,118Continuation · filed 19 Aug 2011
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