COMPUTER SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR THE SAME

• US 20140297597A1
• Filed: 09/27/2010
• Published: 10/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Matsubara, Keisuke, Iwashita, Masaru
• Application Number:
  US13/783,483
• Publication Number:
  US 20140297597A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/681
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1402 Saving, restoring, recovering or retrying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1438 Restarting or rejuvenating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1448 Management of the data involved in backup or backup restore
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1458 Management of the backup or restore process
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1484 involving virtual machines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2023 Failover techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45575 Starting, stopping, suspending or resuming virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/81 Threshold
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/461 Saving or restoring of program or task context

Abstract

A computer system in which restoration of a system state of the computer system can be carried out efficiently and a management method for the same are proposed.

In a computer system having a host server which provides a computer system made up of one or plural computers to a client, and a management server which instructs the host server to construct the computer system or to restore a system state of the computer system that already exists in response to a request from a user, the host server records a content of change in the state from a predetermined time point for each computer, and for at least one of the computers constituting the computer system, the host server selects an optimum restoration method for the computer from plural restoration methods, based on the recorded content of change in the state from the predetermined time point for each computer in response to the instruction from the management server, and restores the state of the computer to the state at the predetermined time point by the selected restoration method.

Claims

1. A computer system characterized by comprising:

a host server which provides a computer system made up of one or plural computers to a client; and

a management server which instructs the host server to construct the computer system or to restore a system state of the computer system that already exists, in response to a request from a user;

wherein the host server

records a content of change in the state from a predetermined time point for each of the computers, and

for at least one of the computers constituting the computer system, selects an optimum restoration method for the computer from plural restoration methods, based on the recorded content of change in the state from the predetermined time point for each of the computers in response to the instruction from the management server, and restores the state of the computer to the state at the predetermined time point by the restoration method that is selected.

2. The computer system according to claim 1, characterized in that

the host server

records a file size of each file that is changed, as the content of change in the state from the predetermined time point for each of the computers, and

selects a restoration method for restoring the state of the computer to the state at the predetermined time point, based on a total file size of the changed file in the computer.

3. The computer system according to claim 2, characterized in that

the host server

holds a threshold value of the total file size of the changed file, predetermined for each role of the computer in the computer system,

compares the total file size of the changed file in the computer with the threshold value of the total file size corresponding to the role of the computer in the computer system, and

selects a restoration method for restoring the state of the computer to the state at the predetermined time point, based on a result of the comparison.

4. The computer system according to claim 1, characterized in that

the host server

changes the restoration method for restoring the state of the computer to the state at the predetermined time point next time or after, to another restoration method according to need, based on a restoration time that is a time required for restoring the state of the computer to the state at the predetermined time point.

5. The computer system according to claim 4, characterized in that

the host server

holds a threshold value of the restoration time predetermined for each role of the computer in the computer system,

compares time required for restoring the state of the computer to the state at the predetermined time point with the threshold value of the restoration time corresponding to the role of the computer in the computer system, and

changes the restoration method for restoring the state of the computer to the state at the predetermined time point, to another restoration method according to need, based on a result of the comparison.

6. The computer system according to claim 1, characterized in that the predetermined time point is a time of point of construction of the corresponding computer system.

7. The computer system according to claim 1, characterized in that the computer constituting the computer system includes a virtual machine.

8. A management method for a computer system including a host server which provides a computer system made up of one or plural computers to a client, and a management server which instructs the host server to construct the computer system or to restore a system state of the computer system that already exists in response to a request from a user, the method being characterized by comprising:

a first step in which the host server records a content of change in the state from a predetermined time point for each of the computers; and

a second step in which for at least one of the computers constituting the computer system, the host server selects an optimum restoration method for the computer from plural restoration methods, based on the recorded content of change in the state from the predetermined time point for each of the computers in response to the instruction from the management server, and restores the state of the computer to the state at the predetermined time point by the restoration method that is selected.

9. The management method for the computer system according to claim 8, characterized in that

in the second step, the host server

records a file size of each file that is changed, as the content of change in the state from the predetermined time point for each of the computers, and

selects a restoration method for restoring the state of the computer to the state at the predetermined time point, based on a total file size of the changed file in the computer.

10. The management method for the computer system according to claim 9, characterized in that

the host server

holds a threshold value of the total file size of the changed file, predetermined for each role of the computer in the computer system, and

in the second step, the host server

compares the total file size of the changed file in the computer with the threshold value of the total file size corresponding to the role of the computer in the computer system, and

selects a restoration method for restoring the state of the computer to the state at the predetermined time point, based on a result of the comparison.

11. The management method for the computer system according to claim 8, characterized in that

in the second step, the host server

changes the restoration method for restoring the state of the computer to the state at the predetermined time point next time or after, to another restoration method according to need, based on a restoration time that is a time required for restoring the state of the computer to the state at the predetermined time point.

12. The management method for the computer system according to claim 11, characterized in that

the host server

holds a threshold value of the restoration time predetermined for each role of the computer in the computer system, and

in the second step, the host server

compares time required for restoring the state of the computer to the state at the predetermined time point with the threshold value of the restoration time corresponding to the role of the computer in the computer system, and

changes the restoration method for restoring the state of the computer to the state at the predetermined time point, to another restoration method according to need, based on a result of the comparison.

13. The management method for the computer system according to claim 8, characterized in that the predetermined time point is a time of point of construction of the corresponding computer system.

14. The computer system according to claim 8, characterized in that the computer constituting the computer system includes a virtual machine.