Method and accelerating data search for data archive system

• US 20060074918A1
• Filed: 11/24/2004
• Published: 04/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Shiga, Kenta, Ikezawa, Mitsuru, Nakatsuka, Daiki
• Application Number:
  US10/995,414
• Publication Number:
  US 20060074918A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/34 Recording or statistical evaluation of computer activity, e.g. of down time, of input/output operation ; Recording or statistical evaluation of user activity, e.g. usability assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0613 in relation to throughput
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0631 by allocating resources to storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

In a data archive system, a time necessary for to processing a search task is shortened. A data archive system according to this invention includes: a storage apparatus including plural volumes in which data is stored; plural search servers which process a search task which requests a search for desired data; and a management server that includes a CPU, an interface, and a memory and manages the search servers, in which the management server has a table adapted to manage the data stored in the volumes, obtains load information concerning the search servers, selects each of the search servers, which is to process the search task based on the load information, identifies each of the volumes, in which the data requested with the search task is stored, based on the table, and notifies the selected search server of the volume, and the search server processes the search task with respect to the volume.

Claims

1. A data archive system, comprising:

a storage apparatus comprising a plurality of volumes in which data is stored;

a plurality of search servers which process a search task which requests a search for the data stored in the storage apparatus; and

a management server which manages the search servers, wherein the management server;

holds management information adapted to manage the data stored in the volumes;

obtains load information concerning the search servers;

selects the search servers, which is to process the search task based on the obtained load information;

identifies a volume, in which the data to be searched for with the search task is stored, based on the management information;

notifies the selected search server of the identified volume; and

processes the search task with respect to the notified volume using the selected search server.

2. The data archive system according to Claim. 1, wherein when the data to be searched for is stored across the plurality of volumes, the search server that is to process the search task is selected with respect to each volume in which the data to be searched for is stored.

3. The data archive system according to claim 1, wherein in the management information, names of the data stored in the volumes and address information concerning the volumes, in which the data is stored, are stored in association with each other.

4. The data archive system according to claim 1, further comprising:

an archive server which stores the data in the volumes and stores data names of the data and address information concerning the volumes, in which the data is stored, in the management information.

5. The data archive system according to claim 1, further comprising:

an archive server which stores the data in the volumes and stores data names and attribute of the data and address information concerning the volumes, in which the data is stored, in the management information,

wherein the management server selects the search server that is to process the search task based on the load information and the management information.

6. A data search method used for a data archive system that comprises a storage apparatus comprising a plurality of volumes in which data is stored, a plurality of search servers which process a search task which requests a search for the data stored in the storage apparatus, and a management server which manages the search servers,

the data search method comprising:

holding management information adapted to manage the data stored in the volumes;

obtaining load information concerning the search servers;

selecting each of the search servers, which is to process the search task based on the obtained load information;

identifying a volume, in which the data to be searched for with the search task is stored, based on the management information;

notifying the selected search server of the identified volume; and

processing the search task with respect to the notified volume using the selected search server.

7. The data search method according to claim 6, wherein when the data to be searched for is stored across the plurality of volumes, the search server that is to process the search task is selected with respect to each volume in which the data to be searched for is stored.

8. The data search method according to claim 6, wherein in the management information, data names of the data stored in the volumes and address information concerning the volumes, in which the data is stored, are stored in association with each other.

9. A management server for managing a plurality of search servers that process a search task requesting a search for data stored in a storage apparatus comprising a plurality of volumes, comprising:

a CPU;

an interface; and

a memory,

wherein the management server holds management information adapted to manage the data stored in the volumes, obtains load information concerning the search servers, selects the search servers, which is to process the search task based on the obtained load information, identifies a volume, in which the data to be searched for with the search task is stored, based on the management information, and notifies the selected search server of the identified volume.

10. The management server according to claim 9, selecting the search server that is to process the search task with respect to each volume in which the data to be searched for is stored, when the data to be searched for is stored across the plurality of volumes, the management server.