Server facility, method for providing copying service for system of server facility, and copying program for system of sever facility

A method for providing a virtual system copying service at a server facility that includes:

• a hardware resource group including at least a plurality of servers and a plurality of storage units;
• and a management server configured to store a template file that contains information on a virtual system including a plurality of virtual machines in a storage area, and facilitate the virtual system by assigning hardware in the hardware resource group to the template file,
• the hardware resource group including a plurality of hardware blocks each of which includes a predetermined number of servers and a predetermined number of storage units, the method comprising:
• causing the management server to determine, in response to a virtual system copying request to copy a copying target virtual system of a first user, to which hardware in a first hardware block of the first user is assigned, to a second hardware block of a second user, whether the second hardware block is able to provide a virtual machine in the copying target virtual system of the first user.

A virtual system copying program executed by a management server at a server facility that includes:

• a hardware resource group including at least a plurality of servers and a plurality of storage units;
• and the management server configured to store a template file that contains information on a virtual system including a plurality of virtual machines in a storage area, and facilitate the virtual system by assigning hardware in the hardware resource group to the template file,
• the hardware resource group including a plurality of hardware blocks each of which includes a predetermined number of servers and a predetermined number of storage units,
• the virtual system copying program causing the management server to perform:
• determining, in response to a virtual system copying request to copy a copying target virtual system of a first user, to which hardware in a first hardware block of the first user is assigned, to a second hardware block of a second user, whether the second hardware block is able to provide a virtual machine in the copying target virtual system of the first user.