Support device and method
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorsMiho KOBAYASHI, Soichi WATANABE, Mitsuo HAYASAKA, Shimpei NOMURA
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Abstract
A support device and method capable of supporting construction of an optimal secondary usage environment for data are proposed. A plurality of construction candidate plans for a secondary usage environment including a copy method for copying the data between a designated copy source site and a designated copy destination site of the data are calculated. A time and a cost required for copying the data and an operation cost of the secondary usage environment to be constructed are calculated for each of the calculated construction candidate plans,, and the plurality of construction candidate plans based on a calculation result together with evaluations thereof are presented.
Claims14
A support device connected to a plurality of sites each having a server and a storage device, and for supporting construction of a secondary usage environment in which the server uses data stored in the storage device, the support device comprising:
- a construction candidate plan calculation unit configured to calculate a plurality of construction candidate plans for the secondary usage environment including a copy method for copying the data between a designated copy source site and a designated copy destination site of the data;
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- a construction candidate plan presentation unit configured to calculate, for each of the construction candidate plans calculated by the construction candidate plan calculation unit, a time and a cost required for copying the data and an operation cost of the secondary usage environment to be constructed, and to present the plurality of construction candidate plans based on a calculation result together with evaluations thereof.
A support method executed by a support device configured to be connected to a plurality of sites each having a server and a storage device, and to support construction of a secondary usage environment in which the server uses data stored in the storage device, the support method comprising:
- a first step of calculating a plurality of construction candidate plans for the secondary usage environment including a copy method for copying the data between a designated copy source site and a designated copy destination site of the data;
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- a second step of calculating, for each of the calculated construction candidate plans, a time and a cost required for copying the data and an operation cost of the secondary usage environment to be constructed, and to present the plurality of construction candidate plans based on a calculation result together with evaluations thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.