MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT METHOD FOR COMPUTER SYSTEM

• US 20180189109A1
• Filed: 10/30/2015
• Published: 07/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Application Number:
  US15/740,688
• Publication Number:
  US 20180189109A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/4557 Distribution of virtual machine instances; Migration and load balancing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/50 Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455

Abstract

This management system for a computer system including a plurality of resources receives designation of an app usage and refers to management information, which includes information about the plurality of resources. The management system determines, for a target virtual server (a virtual server that executes the app for the designated app usage), at least one of the specification of resources to be allocated for exclusive use and the specification of resources to be allocated for shared use, in accordance with app requirements associated with the designated app usage. The plurality of resources includes a plurality of logical volumes and a plurality of computer resources including a plurality of kinds of computer resources. The computer system includes a server system including two or more computer resources included among the plurality of computer resources. The resource specifications include the kinds of resources, app usages associated with resources, and/or the number of resources.

Claims

1. A management system for a computer system including a plurality of resources, the management system comprising:

an interface device coupled to the computer system;

a storage unit that stores management information that is information including information about the plurality of resources; and

a processor coupled to the interface device and the storage unit, wherein

the plurality of resources comprise;

a plurality of logical volumes; and

a plurality of computer resources including a plurality of kinds of computer resources,

the computer system comprises a server system including two or more computer resources included in the plurality of computer resources,

the processor is configured to

(A) receive designation of an app (application program) usage from a manager,

(B) refer to the management information, and

(C) for a target virtual server that is a virtual server that executes an app of the designated app usage, determine at least one of a specification of resources allocated for exclusive use and a specification of resources allocated for shared use in accordance with an app requirement associated with the designated app usage, and

the specification of resources is at least one of a kind of resources, an app usage associated with resources, and the number of resources.

2. The management system according to claim 1, wherein

the designation in (A) is change designation that is one of designation associated with app requirements after change regarding the designated app usage among a plurality of app usages indicated in template information, which is information including app requirements associated with each app usage and included in the management information, and designation associated with the number of apps after change regarding the designated app usage, and

when resources regarding at least one same kind of resources are insufficient due to the change according to the change designation, the determination in (C) is determination of adding the insufficient resources for the target virtual server.

3. The management system according to claim 2, wherein

the computer system comprises a plurality of subsystems obtained by logical partitioning from the server system to the plurality of logical volumes,

a first subsystem of the plurality of subsystems is a production system that is a subsystem belonging to a production environment,

a second subsystem of the plurality of subsystems is a development system that is a subsystem belonging to a development environment, and

when resources regarding at least one same kind of recourses are insufficient due to the change according to the change designation, the determination in (C) is determination of adding the insufficient resources from the development system regarding the target virtual server in the production system.

4. The management system according to claim 3, wherein

a pool that is a set of one or more logical volumes is allocated to the target virtual server,

a storage area is allocated from the pool allocated to the target virtual server to a virtual volume designated by a write request from the target virtual server in the computer system, and

when the same kind of resources are logical volumes, the determination in (C) is determination of adding the logical volumes of the insufficient capacity from the development system to the pool allocated to the target virtual server.

5. The management system according to claim 1, wherein

the computer system comprises two or more server systems including first and second server systems coupled through a communication network,

the target virtual server is in the first server system, and

the determination in (C) is determination of performing allocation of at least one of allocation for exclusive use and allocation for shared use of the resources in at least one of the two or more server systems regarding the target virtual server.

6. The management system according to claim 5, wherein

each of the first and second server systems comprises one or more logical volumes based on one or more storage devices included in the server system, and

when the logical volumes are insufficient in the first server system regarding the target virtual server, the determination in (C) is

determination of allocating the logical volumes of the second server system regarding the target virtual server and

determination of migrating the target virtual server from the first server system to the second server system.

7. The management system according to claim 1, wherein

the computer system comprises a server system and a storage system,

the server system comprises a plurality of server apparatuses comprising a plurality of server ports,

the storage system comprises:

a plurality of storage ports coupled to the plurality of server ports; and

the plurality of logical volumes,

the plurality of resources comprise the plurality of server ports and the plurality of storage ports,

a coupling relationship between the server ports and the storage ports is a one-to-one relationship,

an app usage is associated with at least one of the server ports and the storage ports, and

for each of the plurality of virtual servers provided with a plurality of computer resources included in the plurality of server apparatuses, at least one of the server ports and the storage ports allocated for exclusive use or allocated for shared use to the virtual server is a port associated with the same app usage as the app usage of the app executed by the virtual server.

8. The management system according to claim 7, wherein

the designation in (A) is change designation that is one of designation associated with app requirements after change regarding the designated app usage among a plurality of app usages indicated in template information, which is information including app requirements associated with each app usage and included in the management information, and designation associated with the number of apps after change regarding the designated app usage, and

when computer resources regarding at least one same kind of computer resources are insufficient due to the change according to the change designation, the determination in (C) is determination of adding, for the target virtual server, the insufficient computer resources from a target server apparatus that is a server apparatus which executes the target virtual server.

9. The management system according to claim 8, wherein

when the same kind of computer resources are the server ports, the determination in (C) is determination of changing the app usage associated with at least one port of the server ports of the target server apparatus and the storage ports coupled to the server ports to the app usage designated in (A).

10. The management system according to claim 7, wherein

if the computer resources of the target server apparatus become insufficient when the insufficient resources are added for the target virtual server from the target server apparatus, the determination in (C) is

(x1) determination of migrating the virtual server from the target server apparatus to the server apparatus at a migration destination, and

(x2) determination of associating the app usage of the app executed by the virtual server with at least one port of the server ports of the server apparatus at the migration destination and the storage ports coupled to the server ports.

11. The management system according to claim 10, wherein

the computer system comprises a plurality of subsystems obtained by logical partitioning from the server system to the storage system,

a first subsystem of the plurality of subsystems is a production system that is a subsystem belonging to a production environment,

a second subsystem of the plurality of subsystems is a development system that is a subsystem belonging to a development environment,

each of the production system and the development system comprises at least part of the plurality of server apparatuses,

the designation in (A) is designation associated with app requirements after change, and

when computer resources regarding at least one same kind of computer resources are insufficient between the app requirements after change and app requirements before change, and the resources are insufficient even if the insufficient resources are added from the development system to the target virtual server, the determination in (C) is the determination of (x1) and (x2).

12. The management system according to claim 7, wherein

the designation in (A) is designation associated with a set of the app usage and the number of apps, and

the determination in (C) is determination of the specification of resources regarding each of a plurality of target virtual servers that execute a plurality of apps according to the designated app usage and the number of apps.

13. The management system according to claim 12, wherein

in (C), the processor is configured to

(c1) logically partition the storage system and

(c2) determine the specification of resources allocated from the plurality of server apparatuses for each of the plurality of target virtual servers after (c1),

in (c1), the processor is configured to associate, with the storage port, the app usage without insufficiency of resources even if the specification of target computer resources is allocated from the server apparatus including the server port coupled to the storage port among the designated app usages, and

the specification of target resources is a specification of computer resources regarding the server system among the specifications of resources according to the app requirements corresponding to the associated app usage.

14. The management system according to claim 1, wherein

the processor is configured to execute a virtual server initial arrangement process including (A) to (C) and a resource allocation changing process including (A) to (C),

in the virtual server initial arrangement process,

the designation in (A) is designation associated with the set of the app usage and the number of apps, and

the determination in (C) is determination of the specification of resources for each of the plurality of target virtual servers that execute the plurality of apps according to the designated app usage and the number of apps, and

in the resource allocation changing process,

the designation in (A) is change designation that is one of designation associated with the app requirements after change regarding the designated app usage among the plurality of app usages indicated in the template information, which is information including the app requirements associated with each app usage and included in the management information, and designation associated with the number of apps after change regarding the designated app usage, and

the determination in (C) is determination of changing the specification of resources of the target virtual server in accordance with the change designation.

15. A management method of a computer system comprising a plurality of resources, the management method comprising:

receiving designation of an app (application program) usage from a manager;

referring to management information that is information including information about the plurality of resources; and

for a target virtual server that is a virtual server that executes an app of the designated app usage, determining at least one of a specification of resources allocated for exclusive use and a specification of resources allocated for shared use in accordance with app requirements associated with the designated app usage, wherein

the plurality of resources comprise;

a plurality of logical volumes; and

a plurality of computer resources including a plurality of kinds of computer resources,

the computer system comprises a server system including two or more computer resources included in the plurality of computer resources, and

the specification of resources is at least one of a kind of resources, an app usage associated with resources, and the number of resources.