Data migration apparatus and system

• US 10,270,852 B2
• Filed: 01/08/2016
• Issued: 04/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Hirose, Atsuhito, Yamada, Toshiaki, Tanaka, Tamaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Christensen, Scott B
• Application Number:
  US14/991,252
• Publication Number:
  US 20160234304A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,201 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

An information processing apparatus accepts migration of data from a migration source information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a processor to execute an operation for operation target data as a target of a processing request given from a client apparatus when the operation target data is migrated from the migration source information processing apparatus and the processing request is received from the migration source information processing apparatus, and to notify the client apparatus of a processing result of the operation, the result containing arrangement information of the operation target data.

Claims

1. An information processing system comprising:

a migration source information processing apparatus including;

a source memory storing instructions; and

a source processor, coupled to the source memory, that executes the instructions causing the source processor to;

forward a processing request from a client apparatus to a migration destination information processing apparatus;

migrate to the migration destination information processing apparatus operation target data not updated;

migrate to the migration destination information processing apparatus operation target data being updated after update of the operation target data being updated is completed; and

store, in the source memory, a record indicating that the operation target data is currently updated when a transaction occurs upon receiving the processing request, and to erase the record upon an end of the transaction; and

a migration destination information processing apparatus to accept migration of data from the migration source information processing apparatus, the migration destination information processing apparatus including;

a destination memory storing instructions; and

a destination processor, coupled to the destination memory, that executes the instructions causing a process of;

accessing operation target data as a target of the processing request when the operation target data is migrated from the migration source information processing apparatus and the processing request is received, the processing request being sent to the migration source information processing apparatus from the client apparatus, the processing request being forwarded by the migration source information processing apparatus to the migration destination information processing apparatus; and

transmitting arrangement information of the operation target data to the client apparatus; and

the client apparatus including;

a client memory storing instructions; and

a client processor, coupled to the client memory, that executes the instructions causing a process of;

sending the processing request to the migration source information processing apparatus;

receiving the arrangement information; and

changing destination of the processing request from the migration source information processing apparatus to the migration destination information processing apparatus which transmitted arrangement information when the arrangement information is received from the migration destination information processing apparatus.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the client apparatus updates arrangement information of data retained on the client apparatus, based on a result of the operation.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein when the migration source information processing apparatus configures a cluster system in cooperation with a standby migration source information processing apparatus, the migration destination information processing apparatus synchronizes with a standby migration destination information processing apparatus upon accepting migration of the data.