QUICK DEPLOYMENT METHOD

• US 20100077389A1
• Filed: 12/03/2009
• Published: 03/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Takashi Tameshige, Yoshifumi Takamoto
• Original Assignee: Takashi Tameshige, Yoshifumi Takamoto
• Inventors: Takamoto, Yoshifumi, Tameshige, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 7,958,503 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/168
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/63 Image based installation; Cloning; Build to order

Abstract

Provided is a deployment method for a server system that includes a storage system having logical disks where disk images are stored and plural servers connected to the storage system via a storage network, the method including the step of causing a deploy management module to copy the logical disks which store the disk images to a free area of the storage system before a deployment command is received. According to this invention, disk images are quickly deployed to servers.

Claims

1. A deployment method for a server system that comprises:

a storage system having logical disks where disk images containing operating systems are stored and plural servers connected to the storage system via a storage network, the method comprising the step of;

causing a deploy management module to copy the logical disks which store the disk images to a free area of the storage system before a deployment command is received in preparation for addition of a server to a service.