Method for analyzing performance information

• US 7,127,555 B2
• Filed: 08/11/2005
• Issued: 10/24/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Kusama, Takato, Takeda, Kei
• Primary Examiner(s): Verbrugge, Kevin
• Application Number:
  US11/202,552
• Publication Number:
  US 20050278478A1
• Time in Patent Office: 439 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 711/111
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/324 Display of status information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/328 Computer systems status display G06F11/327 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3433 for load management allocation of a server based on load conditions G06F9/505; load rebalancing G06F9/5083; redistributing the load in a network by a load balancer H04L67/1029
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3476 Data logging G06F11/14, G06F11/2205 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3485 for I/O devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3495 for systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/80 Database-specific techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/815 Virtual
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/87 Monitoring of transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/885 Monitoring specific for caches
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0605 by facilitating the interaction with a user or administrator
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/061 Improving I/O performance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0653 Monitoring storage devices or systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/067 Distributed or networked storage systems, e.g. storage area networks [SAN], network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

A performance information display method using a computer, includes the steps, in the computer, of reading out information data of a storage device previously stored in a storage device and information data of a plurality of devices utilizing the storage device, displaying an identifier of the storage device and identifiers of a plurality of devices utilizing the storage device on a screen on the basis of the information data read out, accepting a command to select the displayed identifier of the storage device, and displaying performance information data of the devices utilizing the selected storage device in association on the basis of the accepted command and the information data read out.

Claims

1. A management computer comprising:

a plurality of ports coupled to a plurality of computers and a storage system including a plurality of RAID groups constructed by a plurality of disk drives;

a processor coupled to the plurality of ports; and

a display device coupled to the processor,

wherein the processor receives first performance information of the plurality of computers, which are calculated based on a plurality of volumes configured by the plurality of computers, from the plurality of computers and relation information including relationship between the plurality of volumes and the plurality of RAID groups gathered by the plurality of computers from the plurality of computers, selects some of the plurality of volumes related to one of the plurality of RAID groups based on the relation information, and outputs a part of the first performance information corresponding to some of the plurality of computers which use the some of the volumes to the display device.

2. A management computer according to claim 1,

wherein the processor receives second performance information of the plurality of RAID groups of the storage system from the storage system, and

wherein the one of the plurality of RAID groups is selected based on the second performance information.

3. A management computer according to claim 2,

wherein the second performance information includes data transfer rate of the one of the plurality of RAID groups.

4. A management computer according to claim 3,

wherein the one of the plurality of RAID groups is selected if the data transfer rate of the one of the plurality of RAID groups is higher than a predetermined threshold.

5. A management computer according to claim 1,

wherein the first performance information includes I/O per second of a volume of the plurality of volumes constructed by one of the plurality of computers.

6. A management computer comprising:

a port coupled to a first computer, a second computer and a storage system;

a display device; and

a processor, coupled to the port and the display device, configured to gather relation information among a first volume of the first computer, a second volume of the second computer and a RAID group of the storage system, and to output first performance information of the first volume and second performance information of the second volume, if the first volume and the second volume are related to the RAID group as judged by using the relation information, to the display device.

7. A management computer according to claim 6,

wherein the processor receives the first performance information from the first computer and receives the second performance information from the second computer.

8. A management computer according to claim 7,

wherein the processor is configured to output performance information of the RAID group to the display device.

9. A management computer according to claim 8,

wherein the processor is configured to output the first and second performance information when the processor receives information of designating the RAID group.

10. A management computer according to claim 9,

wherein the first performance information includes I/O per second of the first volume and the second performance information includes I/O per second of the second volume.

11. A management computer according to claim 10,

wherein the performance information of the RAID group includes data transfer rate of the RAID group.

12. A management computer according to claim 11,

wherein the RAID group is designated if the data transfer rate of the RAID group is higher than a threshold.

13. A method in a system comprising a storage system which includes a RAID group constructed by a plurality of disk drives, a first computer, which uses a first volume related to the RAID group, coupled to the storage system, a second computer, which uses a second volume related to the RAID group, coupled to the storage system, and a management computer coupled to the first computer, the second computer and the storage system, the method comprising:

calculating RAID performance information of the RAID group, first performance information of the first volume and second performance information of the second volume;

gathering, at the first computer, first information of relationship between the first volume and the RAID group;

gathering, at the second computer, second information of relationship between the second volume and the RAID group;

gathering, at the management computer, the RAID performance information from the storage system, the first performance information and the first information from the first computer, and the second performance information and the second information from the second computer; and

displaying, at the management computer, the first performance information and the second performance information if the RAID group is selected by using the first and second information.

14. A method according to claim 13 further comprising:

displaying, at the management computer, the RAID performance information; and

selecting the RAID group in accordance with the RAID performance information.

15. A method according to claim 14,

wherein the RAID performance information includes data transfer rate of the RAID group;

wherein the RAID group is selected if the data transfer rate of the RAID group is higher than a threshold.