RECORDING MEDIUM STORING MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND MANAGEMENT METHOD

• US 20100306495A1
• Filed: 05/27/2010
• Published: 12/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Oe, Kazuichi, Watanabe, Takashi, Ogihara, Kazutaka, Noguchi, Yasuo, Tsuchiya, Yoshihiro, Maruyama, Tetsutaro, Tamura, Masahisa, KUMANO, Tatsuo
• Granted Patent: US 8,443,138 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 711/170
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2206/1012 Load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/061 Improving I/O performance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0631 by allocating resources to storage systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0647 Migration mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0665 at area level, e.g. provisioning of virtual or logical volumes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

A management device obtains, from the plurality of storage nodes, information of accesses which are made to the actual storage areas included in the storage nodes, generating load information of the actual storage areas based on the access information, and storing the generated load information in a load information storage unit. The device changes, based on the load information stored in the load information storage unit, the assignment relations of the actual storage areas with respect to the virtual storage areas such that loads of the storage nodes are leveled. The device instructs the plurality of storage nodes to move the data in the actual storage areas depending on change in the assignment of the actual storage areas to the virtual storage areas.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a management program for causing a computer to manage assignment relations between a plurality of virtual storage areas included in a logical volume and actual storage areas in recording devices included respectively in a plurality of storage nodes, the actual storage areas becoming storage destinations of data which are accessed by designating the virtual storage areas, the program causing the computer to execute a procedure, the procedure comprising:

obtaining, from the plurality of storage nodes, information of accesses that are made to the actual storage areas included in the storage nodes, generating load information of the actual storage areas based on the access information, and storing the generated load information in a load information storage unit;

changing, based on the load information stored in the load information storage unit, the assignment relations of the actual storage areas with respect to the virtual storage areas such that loads of the storage nodes are leveled; and

instructing the plurality of storage nodes to move the data in the actual storage areas depending on change in the assignment of the actual storage areas to the virtual storage areas.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1,

wherein the load information includes a flag indicating whether each of the actual storage areas is to be considered as a change target of an arrangement destination, and

wherein the changing procedure refers to the flags included in the load information, specifies a first storage area among the actual storage areas which are to be considered as the change target of the arrangement destination, the first storage area having a maximum load, calculates loads that are estimated to generate in the storage nodes when the first storage area is assigned to each of the storage nodes, assigns data in the first storage area to the storage node for which the calculated estimated load is minimum, and changes the flag included in the load information to indicate that the first storage area is not to be considered as the change target of the arrangement destination.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the changing procedure executes assignment of the data storage destinations of the data when disconnection of any of the plurality of storage nodes is detected, or when an instruction to disconnect any of the plurality of storage nodes is received.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the changing procedure executes assignment of the data storage destinations at a predetermined period.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the changing procedure designates, from among plural data having the same contents, main data to be used as an access destination upon receiving an access request and sub-data to be used as a backup, and changes the assignment relations such that an arrangement destination of the main data and an arrangement destination of the sub-data having the same contents as those of the main data do not belong to the same storage node, by manipulating management information stored in a management information storage unit for storing the management information that defines the storage nodes which are the respective arrangement destinations of the main data and the sub-data.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 5,

wherein the access information includes access performance that is measured for each of the storage nodes and that indicates a load based on the number of data inputs/outputs per unit time, which is allowable for each of the storage nodes, and access statistical information indicating the number of data accesses made to each of the storage nodes for a predetermined period, and

wherein the obtaining procedure generates the load information based on the access performance and the access statistical information.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 5,

wherein the management information is prepared such that an address space of the logical volume, which is used to specify data, is divided into a plurality of logical segments and the plural data having the same contents are managed in units of the logical segment, and

wherein the changing procedure changes the arrangement destinations of the main data and the sub-data in units of the logical segment.

8. A management device for managing assignment relations between a plurality of virtual storage areas included in a logical volume and actual storage areas in recording devices included respectively in a plurality of storage nodes, the actual storage areas becoming storage destinations of data which are accessed by designating the virtual storage areas, the device comprising:

a load information obtaining unit obtaining, from the plurality of storage nodes, information of accesses that are made to the actual storage areas included in the storage nodes, generating load information of the actual storage areas based on the access information, and storing the generated load information in a load information storage unit;

an assignment unit changing, based on the load information stored in the load information storage unit, the assignment relations of the actual storage areas with respect to the virtual storage areas such that loads of the storage nodes are leveled; and

an instruction unit instructing the plurality of storage nodes to move the data in the actual storage areas depending on change in the assignment of the actual storage areas to the virtual storage areas.

9. A management method for a computer to manage assignment relations between a plurality of virtual storage areas included in a logical volume and actual storage areas in recording devices included respectively in a plurality of storage nodes, the actual storage areas becoming storage destinations of data which are accessed by designating the virtual storage areas, the program causing the computer to execute a procedure, the method comprising:

obtaining, from the plurality of storage nodes, information of accesses that are made to the actual storage areas included in the storage nodes, generating load information of the actual storage areas based on the access information, and storing the generated load information in a load information storage unit;

changing, based on the load information stored in the load information storage unit, the assignment relations of the actual storage areas with respect to the virtual storage areas such that loads of the storage nodes are leveled; and

instructing the plurality of storage nodes to move the data in the actual storage areas depending on change in the assignment of the actual storage areas to the virtual storage areas.