Method of collecting and storing storage network performance information, computer system, and program

• US 7,277,821 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2006
• Issued: 10/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Ohata, Hideo, Takeda, Kei, Ochi, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramos-Feliciano; Eliseo
• Assistant Examiner(s): Huynh; Phuong
• Application Number:
  US11/586,617
• Publication Number:
  US 20070043537A1
• Time in Patent Office: 341 Days
• Field of Search: 702/182, 702/179, 702/183, 702185-188, 714/47, 714/745, 711/154, 717/127, 709/203
• US Class Current: 702/182
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3409 for performance assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3495 for systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/88 Monitoring involving counting
• 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

To provide a method of collecting and storing storage network performance information that allows tracking of the cause of application performance deterioration. It is automatically judged whether or not performance information collected, to be stored, from components of a storage network including a host server and a storage system has a possibility of ever being used in a search for the cause of application performance deterioration, and the degree of importance of performance information is determined based on the result of the judgment. The preservation period of performance information that is high in degree of importance is set long, while a short preservation period is set to performance information of low degree of importance. After the preservation period set to the respective performance information expires, the corresponding performance information is deleted.

Claims

1. A storage network performance information collecting and storing method for collecting and storing performance information on resources of a storage network having a network device that is placed between a first and second computers and a storage system for transaction and reception of input/output data, comprising:

a performance information collecting step of collecting and storing performance information from collection subject components that are chosen in advance out of resources consisting of the storage network, the storage system, and the first and second computers;

a performance dependence relation information collecting step of collecting and storing information on a performance dependence relation between the collection subject components;

an application performance deterioration period detecting step of collecting and storing a performance deterioration period of a first application executed in the first computer;

a first dependence-relation-during-performance-deterioration detecting step of detecting a first collection subject components that have been in a performance dependence relation with the first application whose performance has been deteriorated during the detected application performance deterioration period;

an application-during-performance-deterioration detecting step of detecting the second application that has been in a performance dependence relation with the first collection subject components, the second application being executed in the second computer;

a second dependence-relation-during-performance-deterioration detecting step of detecting a second collection subject components that have been in a performance dependence relation with the second application whose performance has been deteriorated during the detected application performance deterioration period;

a preservation period setting step of setting a second preservation period longer than a normal preservation period for performance information of the first and second collection subject components detected in the first and second dependence-relation-during-performance-deterioration detecting steps and setting the normal preservation period for performance information of other resources than the detected components; and

a deleting step of deleting performance information that has passed one of the normal preservation period and the second preservation period.

2. A computer system comprising:

a first computer which executes a first application;

a second computer which executes a second application;

a storage network which includes a network device placed between the first and second computers and a storage system for transmission and reception of input/output data;

a performance information collecting module which collects and stores performance information from collection subject components that are chosen in advance out of resources consisting of the storage network, the storage system, and the first and second computers;

a performance dependence relation information collecting module which collects and stores information on a performance dependence relation between the collection subject components;

an application performance deterioration period detecting module which collects and stores a performance deterioration period of a first application executed in the first computer;

a first dependence-relation-during-performance-deterioration detecting module which detects a first collection subject components that have been in a performance dependence relation with the first application whose performance has been deteriorated during the detected application performance deterioration period;

an application-during-performance-deterioration detecting module which detects the second application that has been in a performance dependence relation with the first collection subject components, the second application being executed in the second computer;

a second dependence-relation-during-performance-deterioration detecting module which detects a second collection subject components that have been in a performance dependence relation with the second application whose performance has been deteriorated during the detected application performance deterioration period;

a preservation period setting module which sets a second preservation period longer than a normal preservation period for performance information of the first and second collection subject components detected in the first and second dependence-relation-during-performance-deterioration detecting modules, and which sets the normal preservation period for performance information of other resources than the detected components; and

a deleting module which deletes performance information that has passed one of the normal preservation period and the second preservation period.