COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING COMPUTER SYSTEM

• US 20140189032A1
• Filed: 12/26/2013
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Sugimoto, Ken, Kondo, Nobukazu
• Application Number:
  US14/141,056
• Publication Number:
  US 20140189032A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/212
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/17331 Distributed shared memory [DSM], e.g. remote direct memory access [RDMA]
• 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 computer system have: a plurality of servers; a shared storage system for storing data shared by the servers; and a management server, wherein each of the plurality of servers includes: one or more non-volatile memories for storing part of the data stored in the shared storage system; first access history information storing access status of data stored in the non-volatile memories; storage location information storing correspondence between the data stored in the non-volatile memories and the data stored in the shared storage system; and a first management unit for reading and writing data from and to the non-volatile memories, and wherein the management server includes: second access history information of an aggregation of the first access history information acquired from each of the servers; and a second management unit for determining data to be allocated to the non-volatile memories based on the second access history information.

Claims

1. A computer system comprising:

a plurality of servers each including a processor and a memory;

a shared storage system for storing data shared by the plurality of servers;

a network for coupling the plurality of servers and the shared storage system; and

a management server for managing the plurality of servers and the shared storage system,

wherein each of the plurality of servers includes;

one or more non-volatile memories for storing part of the data stored in the shared storage system;

an interface for reading and writing data in the one or more non-volatile memories from and to the one or more non-volatile memories of another server via the network;

first access history information storing access status of data stored in the one or more non-volatile memories;

storage location information storing correspondence between the data stored in the one or more non-volatile memories and the data stored in the shared storage system; and

a first management unit for reading and writing data from and to the one or more non-volatile memories, reading and writing data from and to the one or more non-volatile memories of another server via the interface, or reading and writing data from and to the shared storage system via the interface, and

wherein the management server includes;

second access history information of an aggregation of the first access history information acquired from each of the plurality of servers; and

a second management unit for determining data to be allocated to the one or more non-volatile memories in each of the plurality of servers based on the second access history information.

2. A computer system according to claim 1, wherein the first access history information includes read counts and write counts of the data stored in the one or more non-volatile memories and read counts and write counts of the data stored in the shared storage system.

3. A computer system according to claim 1, wherein the first access history information stores the access status of data in individual units for acquiring histories initially defined in the one or more non-volatile memories.

4. A computer system according to claim 1, wherein the second management unit first determines data to be stored in the one or more non-volatile memories in each of the plurality of servers and notifies each of the plurality of servers of the data to be stored from the shared storage system to the one or more non-volatile memories in accordance with the determination.

5. A computer system according to claim 1,

wherein the first management unit sends and receives data between the one or more non-volatile memories of the server including the first management unit and the one or more non-volatile memories of another server using remote DMA, and

wherein the second management unit determines data to be allocated to the one or more non-volatile memories in each of the plurality of servers based on the second access history information and, in storing data from the shared storage system to the one or more non-volatile memories in each of the plurality of servers, temporarily prohibits each of the plurality of servers to use the remote DMA.

6. A method of controlling computer system to store data in a plurality of servers in the computer system including the plurality of servers each including a processor and a memory, a shared storage system for storing data shared by the plurality of servers, a network for coupling the plurality of servers and the shared storage system, and a management server for managing the plurality of servers and the shared storage system, the method comprising:

a first step of storing, by each of the plurality of servers, part of the data stored in the shared storage system to one or more non-volatile memories included in each of the plurality of servers;

a second step of generating, by each of the plurality of servers, first access history information by storing access status of data stored in the one or more non-volatile memories;

a third step of reading or writing, by each of the plurality of servers, data from or to the one or more non-volatile memories of the one of the plurality of servers, the one or more non-volatile memories of another server, or the shared storage system based on storage location information stored in each of the plurality of servers and indicating correspondence between the data stored in the one or more non-volatile memories and the data stored in the shared storage system;

a fourth step of generating, by the management server, second access history information by aggregating first access history information acquired from each of the plurality of servers; and

a fifth step of determining, by the management server, data to be allocated to the one or more non-volatile memories in each of the plurality of servers based on the second access history information.

7. A method of controlling computer system according to claim 6, wherein the first access history information includes read counts and write counts of the data stored in the one or more non-volatile memories and read counts and write counts of the data stored in the shared storage system.

8. A method of controlling computer system according to claim 6, wherein the second step includes storing the access status of data in individual units for acquiring histories initially defined in the one or more non-volatile memories to the first access history information.

9. A method of controlling computer system according to claim 6, wherein the fifth step includes determining data to be stored in the one or more non-volatile memories in each of the plurality of servers and then notifying each of the plurality of servers of the data to be stored from the shared storage system to the one or more non-volatile memories in accordance with the determination.

10. A method of controlling computer system according to claim 6,

wherein the third step includes sending or receiving data between the one or more non-volatile memories of one of the plurality of servers and the one or more non-volatile memories of another server using remote DMA, and

wherein the fifth step includes determining data to be allocated to the one or more non-volatile memories in each of the plurality of servers based on the second access history information and temporarily prohibiting each of the plurality of servers to use the remote DMA in storing data from the shared storage system to the one or more non-volatile memories in each of the plurality of servers.