Method for analyzing performance information

• US 7,523,254 B2
• Filed: 11/06/2007
• Issued: 04/21/2009
• 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:
  US11/979,566
• Publication Number:
  US 20080098110A1
• Time in Patent Office: 532 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 managing a storage system and a plurality of computers comprising:

a communication device, coupled to the storage system having a plurality of disk drives configuring a plurality of logical volumes and a plurality of ports used for accessing the plurality of logical volumes from the plurality of computers, and coupled to a plurality of computers having a plurality of computer volumes configured to correspond to the plurality of logical volumes;

a storage device storing a computer performance information indicating performance values of the plurality of computer volumes collected by the plurality of computers, a storage performance information indicating performance values of the plurality of ports collected by the storage system, and a mapping information between the plurality of logical volumes and the plurality of ports and the plurality of computer volumes;

a processor coupled to the communication device; and

a display device coupled to the processor,

wherein the display device displays a first view representing first performance values of the plurality of ports based on the storage performance information, according to a request by a user of the management computer,

wherein, based on the mapping information, the processor identifies a part of the plurality of computer volumes corresponding a first port, selected from the plurality of ports by the user of the management computer via the first view, and

wherein the display device displays a second view representing second performance values of the part of the plurality of computer volumes based on the computer performance information.

2. The management computer according to claim 1,

wherein the first view includes a first region representing first display objects each comprising to the plurality of ports, and a second region representing a value of a IOPS or a transfer corresponding to a second port, selected by the user of the management computer based on the first region, as a part of the first performance values.

3. The management computer according to claim 2,

wherein the management computer comprising a mouse device,

wherein the first view includes a second view related object, and

wherein the selection of the first port from the plurality of ports is based on pushing the second view related object by the mouse device during the second region representing a value of the IOPS or the transfer corresponding to the first port as the second port.

4. The management computer according to claim 1,

wherein the part of computer volumes are identified based on the second performance value for selectively displaying certain number of the part of the computer volumes which are high performance value.

5. A performance displaying method of a management computer, coupled to a storage system having a plurality of disk drives configuring a plurality of logical volumes and a plurality of ports used for accessing the plurality of logical volumes, and coupled to a plurality of computers having a plurality of computer volumes configured to correspond to the plurality of logical volumes, the method comprising:

storing a computer performance information indicating performance values of the plurality of computer volumes collected by the plurality of computers, a storage performance information indicating performance values of the plurality of ports collected by the storage system, and a mapping information between the plurality of logical volumes and the plurality of ports and the plurality of computer volumes;

by a first view on a display device of the management computer, displaying first performance values of the plurality of ports requested by a user of the management computer and based on the storage performance information,

based on the mapping information, identifying a part of the plurality of computer volumes corresponding a first port, selected from the plurality of ports by the user of the management computer based on the first view; and

by a second view on the display device of the management computer, displaying second performance values of the part of the plurality of computer volumes based on the computer performance information.

6. The method according to claim 5,

wherein the first view includes a first region representing first display objects each corresponding to the plurality of ports, and a second region representing a value of a IOPS or a transfer corresponding to a second port, selected by the user of the management computer based on the first region, as a part of the first performance values.

7. The method according to claim 6,

wherein the first view includes a second view related object;

and

wherein the selection of the first port from the plurality of ports is based on pushing the second view related object by a mouse device of the management computer during the second region representing a value of the IOPS or the transfer corresponding to the first port as the second port.

8. The method according to claim 5,

wherein the part of computer volumes are identified based on the second performance value for selectively displaying certain number of the part of the computer volumes which are high performance value.