US 7,890,613 B2Granted

Program deployment apparatus and method

AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.

InventorsTakashi Tameshige, Yoshifumi Takamoto

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Abstract

With a management server that is connected via a network to at least one physical server including a physical server with a virtualization facility for providing a virtual server to a client and deploys a program to the at least one physical server as necessary, and by a program deployment method for such a management server for deploying a program to the at least one physical server as necessary, there is provided units for detecting one or more nodes which are any of the physical server, the virtualization facility, and the virtual server and connected via the network, acquiring first configuration information about a virtual layer of each detected node for each detected node, and selectively deploying the program to the relevant node based on the first configuration information for each acquired node.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A management server connected, via a first network, to one or more physical servers that are connected to a storage apparatus via a second network, at least one of the physical servers being a physical server with a virtualization facility for providing a virtual server to a client, the management server comprising:

a detection unit for detecting one or more nodes which are any of the physical servers, the virtualization facility, and the virtual server and connected via the first network;
an acquisition unit for acquiring, for each node detected by the detection unit, first configuration information about a virtual layer of the node;
and
a deployment unit for deploying a program to each node based on the first configuration information for each node that is acquired by the acquisition unit,
wherein, the deployment unit:
detects a topology for each node based on the first configuration information corresponding to the node,
does not deploy the program to the physical server on which the virtual server is active or defined, does not deploy the program to the virtualization facility and the physical server which are incompatible with the program, but deploys the program to the physical server on which the virtualization facility is inactive and the virtual server corresponding to the physical server on which the virtualization facility is inactive, and
the management server manages, via the deployed program, the physical server on which the virtualization facility is inactive and the virtual server corresponding to the physical server on which the virtualization facility is inactive.

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A management server method performed by a management server connected, via a first network, to one or more physical servers that are connected to a storage apparatus via a second network, at least one of the physical servers being a physical server with a virtualization facility for providing a virtual server to a client, the management server method comprising:

a first step of detecting one or more nodes which are any of the physical servers, the virtualization facility, and the virtual server and connected via the first network;
a second step of acquiring, for each detected node, first configuration information about a virtual layer of the node;
and
a third step of deploying a program to each node based on the first configuration information for each node acquired in the second step,
wherein, the third step includes:
detecting a topology for each node based on the first configuration information corresponding to the node, and
not deploying the program to the physical server on which the virtual server is active or defined, not deploying the program to the virtualization facility and the physical server which are incompatible with the program, but deploying the program to the physical server on which the virtualization facility is inactive, and the virtual server corresponding to the physical server on which the virtualization facility is inactive, and
the management server manages, via the deployed program, the physical server on which the virtualization facility is inactive and the virtual server corresponding to the physical server on which the virtualization facility is inactive.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.