VIRTUAL MACHINE SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE VIRTUAL MACHINE SYSTEM

• US 20100031258A1
• Filed: 06/12/2009
• Published: 02/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: UENO, Hitoshi, TAKANO, Mitsuhiro
• Application Number:
  US12/483,724
• Publication Number:
  US 20100031258A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4856 resumption being on a different machine, e.g. task migration, virtual machine migration G06F9/5088 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

In a control method of a virtual machine system, when a virtual machine operating in a physical machine is transferred to another physical machine, a management server stops the virtual machine of transfer source and defines a virtual machine of transfer destination in the other physical machine. A virtual network address and a virtual storage interface address of the virtual machine of transfer source is exchanged with a virtual network address and a virtual storage interface address defined in the virtual machine of transfer destination in the state that the virtual machine is prevented from being activated and then prevention of activation of the virtual machine of transfer destination is canceled, so that transfer processing can be made safely by simple procedure.

Claims

1. A control method of a virtual machine system including a plurality of physical machines, a system disk and a management part to control virtual machines and in which a plurality of logical virtual machines are operated by control parts in the physical machines, each of the virtual machines including a logical communication network interface and a logical storage connection interface and including as address information a virtual network address and a virtual storage interface address, the system disk in which a system to activate the virtual machine is stored being connected to the logical storage connection interface, wherein

when the virtual machine operating in the physical machine is transferred to another physical machine, the management part performs the following:

stopping the virtual machine of transfer source;

defining the virtual machine of transfer destination in the other physical machine;

changing configuration information of the virtual machine of transfer source and the virtual machine of transfer destination in state that the virtual machine is prevented from being activated; and

canceling prevention of activation of the virtual machine of transfer destination after the configuration information is changed.

2. A control method of a virtual machine system according to claim 1, wherein

the configuration information contains at least one of the virtual network address, the virtual storage interface address and time difference information.

3. A control method of a virtual machine system according to claim 1, wherein

when the configuration information of the virtual machine of transfer source and the virtual machine of transfer destination is changed, the management part overwrites the virtual network address and the virtual storage interface address of the virtual machine of transfer source on those of the virtual machine of transfer destination and invalidates the virtual network address and the virtual storage interface address of the virtual machine of transfer source.

4. A control method of a virtual machine system according to claim 1, wherein

when the configuration information of the virtual machine of transfer source and the virtual machine of transfer destination is changed, the management part exchanges the virtual network address and the virtual storage interface address of the virtual machine of transfer source with the virtual network address and the virtual storage interface address defined in the virtual machine of transfer destination.

5. A control method of a virtual machine system according to claim 1, wherein

the management part prevents the virtual machine of transfer source from being activated.

6. A control method of a virtual machine system according to claim 1, wherein

the management part retrieves a network address of the control part operating the virtual machines scattered in the physical machines connected to the same network.

7. A control method of a virtual machine system according to claim 1, wherein

the management part retrieves a virtual network address of the virtual machine scattered in the physical machines connected to the same network and retrieves which physical machine the virtual machine having the virtual network address is operated in at present.

8. A control method of a virtual machine system according to claim 1, wherein

the management part is contained in a management server connected to the plurality of physical machines to manage the virtual machines.

9. A virtual machine system including a plurality of physical machines, a system disk and a management part to control virtual machines and in which a plurality of logical virtual machines are operated by control parts in the physical machines, each of the virtual machines including a logical communication network interface and a logical storage connection interface and including as address information a virtual network address and a virtual storage interface address, the system disk in which a system to activate the virtual machine is stored being connected to the logical storage connection interface, wherein

when the virtual machine operating in the physical machine is transferred to another physical machine, the management part performs the following:

stopping the virtual machine of transfer source;

defining the virtual machine of transfer destination in the other physical machine;

changing configuration information of the virtual machine of transfer source and the virtual machine of transfer destination in state that the virtual machine is prevented from being activated; and

canceling prevention of activation of the virtual machine of transfer destination after the configuration information is changed.

10. A virtual machine system according to claim 9, wherein

the configuration information contains at least one of the virtual network address, the virtual storage interface address and time difference information.

11. A virtual machine system according to claim 9, wherein

when the configuration information of the virtual machine of transfer source and the virtual machine of transfer destination is changed, the management part overwrites the virtual network address and the virtual storage interface address of the virtual machine of transfer source on those of the virtual machine of transfer destination and invalidates the virtual network address and the virtual storage interface address of the virtual machine of transfer source.

12. A virtual machine system according to claim 9, wherein

when the configuration information of the virtual machine of transfer source and the virtual machine of transfer destination is changed, the management part exchanges the virtual network address and the virtual storage interface address of the virtual machine of transfer source with the virtual network address and the virtual storage interface address defined in the virtual machine of transfer destination.

13. A virtual machine system according to claim 9, wherein

the management part prevents the virtual machine of transfer source from being activated.

14. A virtual machine system according to claim 9, wherein

the management part retrieves a network address of the control part operating the virtual machines scattered in the physical machines connected to the same network.

15. A virtual machine system according to claim 9, wherein

the management part retrieves a virtual network address of the virtual machine scattered in the physical machines connected to the same network and retrieves which physical machine the virtual machine having the virtual network address is operated in at present.