COMPUTER SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD OF COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM ON WHICH PROGRAM IS STORED

• US 20120144006A1
• Filed: 08/05/2010
• Published: 06/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Wakamatsu, Takahiko, Onishi, Yoji
• Application Number:
  US13/390,020
• Publication Number:
  US 20120144006A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2025 using centralised failover control functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/6418 Hybrid transport

Abstract

A control method of a computer system where a management server having configuration management information for managing I/O switches for connecting a plurality of computers with a plurality of I/O devices controls the allocation of the I/O devices for the computers where the management server acquires identifiers of a first computer and an I/O device that has been allocated to the first computer and stores them in the configuration management information, receives a switch from the first computer to a second computer, stops the first computer, allocates the I/O device that had been allocated to the first computer to the second computer, activates the second computer, and rewrites the identifier of a specific I/O device among the I/O devices that have been switched to the second computer to a pre-set virtual identifier.

Claims

1. A computer system, comprising:

a plurality of computers each comprising a processor, a memory, and an I/O interface;

one or a plurality of I/O switches to which the plurality of computers are coupled via the I/O interface;

a plurality of I/O devices that are coupled to the one or plurality of I/O switches; and

a management server comprising configuration management information for managing the plurality of I/O devices coupled to the plurality of computers via the one or plurality of I/O switches, for controlling allocation of the plurality of I/O devices to the plurality of computers, wherein;

the management server comprises a configuration management module that receives a changeover from a first computer to a second computer among the plurality of computers and allocates the I/O device allocated to the first computer to the second computer;

the configuration management module comprises;

an identifier detection module that acquires an identifier of the first computer among the plurality of computers and an identifier of the I/O device allocated to the first computer and stores the identifier of the first computer and the identifier of the I/O device in the configuration management information;

an I/O switch changeover module that transmits an instruction to change over the I/O device allocated to the first computer to the second computer to the one or plurality of I/O switches; and

a device identifier rewriting module that rewrites an identifier of a specific I/O device within the configuration management information to a virtual identifier that has been previously set;

the I/O switch changeover module transmits, after stopping the first computer, the instruction to change over the I/O device allocated to the first computer to the second computer to the one or plurality of I/O switches; and

the device identifier rewriting module rewrites, after activating the second computer, the identifier of the specific I/O device among the I/O devices that have been changed over to the second computer to the virtual identifier.

2. The computer system according to claim 1, wherein:

the configuration management information retains a coupling relationship between the plurality of computers and the plurality of I/O devices that are coupled to the one or plurality of I/O switches, the identifiers serving as information on the plurality of I/O devices, and information indicating the specific I/O device; and

the identifier detection module is configured to;

acquire the identifier of the I/O device allocated to the first computer; and

set, when the I/O device is the specific I/O device, the information indicating the specific I/O device in the configuration management information.

3. The computer system according to claim 1, wherein:

the configuration management module further comprises a fault detection module that monitors the first computer and detects an occurrence of a fault; and

the configuration management module stops, when the fault detection module detects the occurrence of the fault of the first computer, the first computer and takes over the I/O device to the second computer.

4. The computer system according to claim 1, further comprising a third computer that is coupled to each of the plurality of computers, for managing operating states of the respective plurality of computers,

wherein the device identifier rewriting module transmits an instruction to rewrite the identifier of the specific I/O device among the I/O devices that have been changed over to the second computer to the virtual identifier to the third computer.

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

a first network that is coupled to a fourth computer, for managing the plurality of computers; and

a second network that is coupled to the plurality of computers providing services, wherein;

the plurality of I/O devices comprise a first I/O device coupled to the first network and a second I/O device coupled to the second network; and

the device identifier rewriting module is configured to;

determine the first I/O device coupled to the first network among the plurality of I/O devices as the specific I/O device; and

rewrite an identifier of the first I/O device to the virtual identifier.

6. The computer system according to claim 1, wherein the device identifier rewriting module previously sets the virtual identifiers corresponding to identifiers of the plurality of I/O devices.

7. A control method for a computer system,

the computer system comprising:

a plurality of computers each comprising a processor, a memory, and an I/O interface; and

a management server that couples one or a plurality of I/O switches to which the plurality of computers are coupled via the I/O interface to a plurality of I/O devices and comprises configuration management information for managing the plurality of I/O devices coupled to the plurality of computers via the one or plurality of I/O switches,

the management server controlling allocation of the plurality of I/O devices to the plurality of computers,

the control method comprising;

a storing step of acquiring, by the management server, an identifier of a first computer among the plurality of computers and an identifier of the I/O device allocated to the first computer and storing the identifier of the first computer and the identifier of the I/O device in the configuration management information;

a reception step of receiving, by the management server, a changeover from the first computer to a second computer among the plurality of computers;

a stopping step of stopping, by the management server, the first computer;

a transmission step of transmitting, by the management server, an instruction to allocate the I/O device allocated to the first computer to the second computer to the one or plurality of I/O switches;

an activation step of activating, by the management server, the second computer; and

a rewriting step of rewriting, by the management server, an identifier of a specific I/O device among the I/O devices that have been changed over to the second computer to a virtual identifier that has been previously set.

8. The control method for a computer system according to claim 7, wherein:

the configuration management information retains a coupling relationship between the plurality of computers and the plurality of I/O devices that are coupled to the one or plurality of I/O switches, the identifiers serving as information on the plurality of I/O devices, and information indicating the specific I/O device; and

the storing step comprises;

acquiring, by the management server, the identifier of the I/O device allocated to the first computer; and

setting, by the management server, when the I/O device is the specific I/O device, the information indicating the specific I/O device in the configuration management information.

9. The control method for a computer system according to claim 7, wherein the reception step comprises monitoring, by the management server, the first computer and when detecting an occurrence of a fault, receiving the changeover from the first computer to the second computer.

10. The control method for a computer system according to claim 7, wherein:

the computer system further comprises a third computer that is coupled to each of the plurality of computers, for managing operating states of the respective plurality of computers; and

the rewriting step comprises transmitting, by the management server, an instruction to rewrite the identifier of the specific I/O device among the I/O devices that have been changed over to the second computer to the virtual identifier to the third computer.

11. The control method for a computer system according to claim 7, wherein:

the computer system further comprises;

a first network that is coupled to a fourth computer, for managing the plurality of computers; and

a second network that is coupled to the plurality of computers providing services;

the plurality of I/O devices comprise a first I/O device coupled to the first network and a second I/O device coupled to the second and network; and

the rewriting step comprises determining, by the management server, the first I/O device coupled to the first network among the plurality of I/O devices as the specific I/O device, and rewriting an identifier of the first I/O device to the virtual identifier.

12. The control method for a computer system according to claim 7, wherein the rewriting step comprises previously setting, by the management computer, the virtual identifiers corresponding to identifiers of the plurality of I/O devices.

13. A storage medium having a program, which is used in a computer system, stored thereon,

the computer system comprising:

a plurality of computers each comprising a processor, a memory, and an I/O interface; and

a management server that couples one or a plurality of I/O switches to which the plurality of computers are coupled via the I/O interface to a plurality of I/O devices and comprises configuration management information for managing the plurality of I/O devices coupled to the plurality of computers via the one or plurality of I/O switches,

the program being used by the management server to control allocation of the plurality of I/O devices to the plurality of computers,

the program controlling the management server to execute the procedures of;

acquiring an identifier of the I/O device allocated to a first computer among the plurality of computers and storing the identifier in the configuration management information;

receiving a changeover from the first computer to a second computer among the plurality of computers;

stopping the first computer;

transmitting an instruction to allocate the I/O device allocated to the first computer to the second computer to the one or plurality of I/O switches;

activating the second computer; and

rewriting an identifier of a specific I/O device among the I/O devices that have been changed over to the second computer to a virtual identifier that has been previously set.