STORAGE SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD FOR STORAGE SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20130046845A1
• Filed: 04/27/2011
• Published: 02/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Torii, Takashi
• Application Number:
  US13/643,805
• Publication Number:
  US 20130046845A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/213
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

A control method for a storage system, whereby a plurality of storage nodes included in the storage system are grouped into a first group composed of storage nodes with a network distance in the storage system within a predetermined distance range, and second groups composed of storage nodes that share position information for the storage nodes that store data. A logical spatial identifier that identifies the second groups is allocated for each of the second groups, to calculate a logical spatial position using a data identifier as an input value for a distributed function, and store data corresponding to the data identifier in the storage node that belongs the second group to which the identifier corresponding to the calculated position is allocated.

Claims

1. A storage system comprising a plurality of storage nodes, wherein

the storage nodes comprise:

a first memory that stores data; and

a second memory that stores node information related to both a network group composed of the storage nodes in which a network distance is within a predetermined range and a storage group based on data identifying information corresponding to the data, and

the storage nodes reference the node information and perform access processing of the data, when an access request for the data is received.

2. A storage system according to claim 1, wherein the storage nodes store in the node information, information for all of the storage nodes within the network group to which the storage nodes belong, and information for all of the storage nodes within the storage group to which the storage nodes belong.

3. A control method of a storage system including a plurality of storage nodes that store data, the method comprising:

a step of, when an access request for the data is received, referencing node information related to both a network group composed of the storage nodes in which a network distance is within a predetermined range and a storage group based on data identifying information corresponding to the data; and

a step of performing access processing of the data, based on the node information.

4. A control method of a storage system according to claim 3, further comprising:

a step of, in the storage node that has received the access request, determining the storage group based on the data identifying information;

a step of referencing the node information, and detecting the storage node that belongs to the storage group that is determined to be within the network group to which the storage group that received the access request belongs;

a step of requesting access to the data in the detected storage node; and

a step of responding to the access request based on a response from the detected storage node.

5. A control method for a storage system according to claim 4, further comprising:

a step of, in a case where, in the detected storage node, data corresponding to the access request is being stored in the detected storage node, sending data corresponding to the access request to the storage node that has received the access request; and

a step of, in a case where, in the detected storage node, data corresponding to the access request is not being stored in the detected storage node, referencing the node information, and requesting data corresponding to the access request from another of the storage nodes within the storage group to which the detected storage node belongs, and sending data corresponding to the access request to the storage node that has received the access request.

6. A control method for a storage system according to claim 4, further comprising:

a step of, in a case where, in the detected storage node, data corresponding to the access request is being stored in the detected storage node, sending data corresponding to the access request to the storage node that has received the access request; and

a step of, in a case where, in the detected storage node, data corresponding to the access request is not being stored in the detected storage node, referencing the node information, and searching for an additional storage node that is storing data corresponding to the access request within the storage group to which the detected storage node belongs, and notifying the searched storage node to the storage node that has received the access request.

7. A computer program stored in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, for respective storage nodes in a storage system including a plurality of storage nodes that store data, the program comprising;

an instruction of, when an access request for the data is received, referencing node information related to;

a network group composed of the storage nodes in which a network distance is within a predetermined range, and a storage group based on data identifying information corresponding to the data, and

an instruction of performing access processing of the data, based on the node information.