PROGRAM DEPLOYMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD

• US 20090287799A1
• Filed: 08/14/2008
• Published: 11/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: TAKAMOTO, Yoshifumi, TAMESHIGE, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 7,890,613 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/64 Retargetable

Abstract

With a program deployment apparatus 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 program deployment apparatus for deploying a program to the at least one physical server as necessary, one or more nodes which are connected via the network and are any of the physical server, the virtualization facility, and the virtual server are detected, first configuration information about a virtual layer of each detected node is acquired for each detected node, and the program is selectively deployed to the relevant node based on the first configuration information for each acquired node.

Claims

1. A program deployment apparatus 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, the program deployment apparatus being for deploying a program to the at least one physical server as necessary and comprising:

a detection unit 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;

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 selectively deploying the program to the relevant node based on the first configuration information for each node that is acquired by the acquisition unit.

2. The program deployment apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the deployment unit detects topology for each node based on the first configuration information for each node;

and based on that topology, the deployment unit does not deploy the program to the physical server on which the virtual server is active or defined, but deploys the program to the physical server on which the virtualization facility is inactive.

3. The program deployment apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition unit acquires second configuration information for each node detected by the detection unit about the type of operation system mounted on the node;

and

the deployment unit decides the type of program to be deployed to the node based on the second configuration information for the relevant node.

4. The program deployment apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition unit acquires third configuration information for each node detected by the detection unit about a service for which the node is used;

and

the deployment unit decides the type of the program to be deployed to the node based on the third configuration information for the relevant node.

5. The program deployment apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the acquisition unit stores a table in which at least one piece of information from among:

an information acquisition source for acquisition of the first configuration information for the virtualization facility, a method for identifying the virtualization facility, and a communication protocol for connection with the information acquisition source is registered for each type of virtualization facility; and

when judging the type of virtualization facility, the acquisition unit attempts, for each type of virtualization facility stored in the table, access to the information acquisition source according to the communication protocol and identification processing by the identification method, and then judges the type of virtualization facility based on the success of the attempt.

6. The program deployment apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the deployment unit judges, based on license information of the program, whether the program can be deployed or not.

7. The program deployment apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the deployment unit deploys the program by establishing connection to the node by a connection method used when the acquisition unit acquires the first configuration information from the node to which the program is to be deployed.

8. A program deployment method for an apparatus 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, the program deployment method being for deploying a program to the at least one physical server as necessary and comprising:

a first step of detecting one or more nodes which are any of the physical server, the virtualization facility, and the virtual server and connected via the 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 selectively deploying the program to the relevant node based on the first configuration information for each node acquired.

9. The program deployment method according to claim 8, wherein in the third step, topology for each node is detected based on the first configuration information for each node;

and based on that topology, the program is not deployed to the physical server on which the virtual server is active or defined, but the program is deployed to the physical server on which the virtualization facility is inactive.

10. The program deployment method according to claim 8, wherein in the second step, second configuration information about the type of operation system mounted on the node is acquired for each detected node;

and

in the third step, the type of program to be deployed to the node is decided based on the second configuration information for the relevant node.

11. The program deployment method according to claim 8, wherein in the second step, third configuration information about a service for which the node is used is acquired for each detected node;

and

the type of program to be deployed to the node is decided based on the third configuration information for the relevant node.

12. The program deployment method according to claim 8, wherein in the second step, when judging the type of virtualization facility based on a table in which at least one piece of information from among:

an information acquisition source for acquisition of the first configuration information for the virtualization facility, a method for identifying the virtualization facility, and a communication protocol for connection with the information acquisition source is registered for each type of virtualization facility, access to the information acquisition source according to the communication protocol and identification processing by the identification method are attempted for each type of virtualization facility stored in the table, and then the type of virtualization facility is judged based on the success of the attempt.

13. The program deployment method according to claim 8, wherein in the third step, whether the program can be deployed or not is judged based on license information of the program.

14. The program deployment method according to claim 8, wherein in the third step, the program is deployed to the node by establishing connection to the node by a connection method used when acquiring the first configuration information from the node to which the program is to be deployed.