US 8,799,594 B2Granted

Online volume migration using multi-path input/output masquerading

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsYakov Broido, Daniel I. Goodman, Haim Helman, Leonid Kull, Orit Nissan-Messing, Guy Rozendorn

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Abstract

An apparatus for configuring data migration comprises a host computer, a first volume, a second volume, a storage area network (SAN) configured to couple the host computer, the first volume, and the second volume, a memory coupled to the second volume, and a processor configured to map the first volume to the host computer; to copy a volume identifier associated with the mapped first volume to the memory, to retrieve, by the host computer, the copied volume identifier from the memory, to set a state of the second volume to inactive, to map the inactive second volume to the host computer, to set a state of the mapped first volume to inactive, to synchronize status data between the inactive first volume and the inactive second volume, after the copying, to start data migration from the inactive first volume to the inactive second volume, and after the starting, to set the state of the second volume to active.

Claims9

Dependent claims

An apparatus for configuring data migration, comprising:

a host computer;
a first volume;
a second volume;
a storage area network (SAN) configured to couple the host computer, the first volume and the second volume;
a memory coupled to the second volume;
and
a plurality of processors, a first processor of the plurality of processors in communication with the first volume, and a second processor of the plurality of processors in communication with the second volume, the plurality of processors configured:
to map the first volume to the host computer,
to set the first volume to active, by setting a first target port group comprising a port associated with the first volume to active, thereby setting a state of all logical paths between the host computer and the first volume to active;
to query volumes mapped to the host computer to determine the states of the volumes mapped to the host computer to thereby define multipath devices and ascertain the state of every logical path to each multipath device;
after setting the first volume to active, to copy a volume identifier associated with the mapped first volume to the memory,
after setting the first volume to active, to retrieve, by the host computer, the copied volume identifier of the first volume from the memory,
after setting the first volume to active, to set a state of a second target port group comprising a port associated with the second volume to inactive using the second processor, thereby setting a state of all logical paths between the host computer and the second volume to inactive,
after setting the first volume to active and the second volume to inactive and after the setting the state of the second target port group, to map the inactive second volume to the host computer,
after the mapping of the inactive second volume to the host computer, to send a query to identify a state of the first volume and a state of the second volume mapped to the host computer,
to determine from the query that the state of the first volume is active and the state of the second volume is inactive,
to identify the first volume and the second volume as a single multipath device, due to the volume identifier associated with the mapped first volume being in the memory,
to set a state of the mapped first volume to inactive using the first processor, after the identifying,
to synchronize status data between the inactive first volume and the inactive second volume,
after the copying, to start data migration from the inactive first volume to the inactive second volume, and
after the starting, to set the state of the second volume to active.

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A computer program product configured to migrate data from a first volume to a second volume, which are coupled via a storage area network (SAN) to a host computer, with the first volume mapped to the host computer, the first volume in communication with a first processor, and the second volume in communication with a second processor, the computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising:
computer readable program code configured to set the first volume to active, by setting a first target port group comprising a port associated with the first volume to active, thereby setting a state of all logical paths between the host computer and the first volume to active;
computer readable program code configured to query volumes mapped to the host computer to determine the states of the volumes mapped to the host computer to thereby define multipath devices and ascertain the state of every logical path to each multipath device;
computer readable program code configured to, after setting the first volume to active, copy a volume identifier associated with the first volume to a memory coupled to the second volume;
computer readable program code configured to, after setting the first volume to active, retrieve, by the host computer, the volume identifier of the first volume from the memory;
computer readable program code configured to, after setting the first volume to active, set, using the second processor, a state of a second target port group comprising a port associated with the second volume to inactive, thereby setting a state of all logical paths between the host computer and the second volume to inactive;
computer readable program code configured to, after setting the first volume to active and the second volume to inactive and after the setting the state of the second target port group, map the inactive second volume to the host computer;
computer readable program code configured to, after the mapping second volume to the host computer, send a query to identify a state of the first volume and a state of the second volume mapped to the host computer,
computer readable program code configured to determine from the query that the state of the first volume is active and the state of the second volume is inactive,
computer readable program code configured to identify the first volume and the second volume as a single multipath device, due to the volume identifier associated with the mapped first volume being in the memory,
computer readable program code configured to set, using the first processor, a state of the first volume to inactive, after the identifying;
computer readable program code configured to synchronize status data between the inactive first volume and the inactive second volume;
computer readable program code configured to after the copying, start data migration from the inactive first volume to the inactive second volume;
and
computer readable program code configured to after the starting, set the state of the second volume to active.

12 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/095,642Filed 27 Apr 2011
Published: US 2012/0278567 A11 Nov 2012
Granted: 5 Aug 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06F 3/0635
Configuration or reconfiguration of storage systems: by changing the path, e.g. traffic rerouting, path reconfiguration
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]