Storage network system, managing apparatus, managing method and program

• US 8,230,057 B1
• Filed: 03/19/2012
• Issued: 07/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2002
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Hirata, Toshiaki, Hirabayashi, Motoaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Jacobs, Lashonda
• Application Number:
  US13/423,789
• Publication Number:
  US 20120179815A1
• Time in Patent Office: 127 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/224, 709/227, 370/389, 370/396, 370/397, 370/498, 710/36, 710/38, 710/46, 711/114
• US Class Current: 709/223
• 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 11/3485 for I/O devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/349 for interfaces, buses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/065 related to network devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0876 Network utilisation, e.g. volume of load or congestion level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

A management computer includes a memory storing toplogical information including identifiers of ports of computers, storage apparatuses, and switches. The management computer includes a processor, which is configured to: collect a plurality of performance information of the ports, and a plurality of access times from computer ports to the storage apparatuses; evaluate that a certain access time among the plurality of access times exceeds a predetermined allowable range; search a first access path to which the certain access time corresponds; search at least one second access path starting from a first computer port on the first access path; and search performance information of certain ports which are on the at least one second access path in order to display the searched performance information.

Claims

1. A management computer coupled to a plurality of computers, including a plurality of computer ports, and coupled to a plurality of storage apparatuses, including a plurality of storage ports and a plurality of volumes, the management computer comprising:

a memory storing;

topological information including topological information of the computer ports and the storage ports; and

performance information of the computer ports and the storage ports; and

a processor executing to;

after a performance of a particular computer port in a particular computer satisfies a predetermined condition, identify a storage port corresponding to an access path from the particular computer to one of the plurality of storage apparatuses by referring to the topological information, and

after the storage port is identified, output the performance information of the identified storage port.

2. A management computer according to claim 1,

wherein the performance information includes a traffic amount.

3. A management computer according to claim 2,

wherein the traffic amount is an average of the traffic amount for a predetermined period of time.

4. A management computer according to claim 1,

wherein the predetermined condition is satisfied when an access time of the particular computer port exceeds a predetermined range.

5. A management computer according to claim 1,

wherein the predetermined condition is satisfied when a data traffic amount of the particular computer port exceeds a predetermined reference value.

6. A management computer according to claim 1,

wherein the processor executes to output a graph which shows a time-wise change of the performance information.

7. A management computer according to claim 6,

wherein the graph is a line graph.

8. A management computer according to claim 1,

wherein the topological information includes ports of intermediate devices and the performance information includes information of intermediate ports, and

wherein the processor executes to:

identify an intermediate port corresponding to the access path; and

output the performance information of the identified intermediate port.

9. A management computer according to claim 8,

the intermediate devices are switches.

10. A management computer according to claim 1,

wherein the processor executes to collect the performance information from the computers and the storage apparatuses for a predetermined period of time and to store the performance information.

11. A management computer coupled to a plurality of computers, including a plurality of computer ports, and coupled to a plurality of storage apparatuses, including a plurality of storage ports and a plurality of volumes, the management computer comprising:

a memory storing;

topological information including topological information of the computer ports and the storage ports; and

performance information of the computer ports and the storage ports; and

a processor coupled to the memory,

wherein, after a particular computer having a particular computer port related to a particular event is identified, the processor executes to;

identify a storage port corresponding to an access path from the particular computer to one of the plurality of storage apparatuses by referring to the topological information, and

after the storage port is identified, output the performance information of the identified storage port.

12. A management computer according to claim 11,

wherein the particular event occurs when an access time of the particular computer port exceeds a predetermined range.

13. A management computer according to claim 11,

wherein the particular event occurs when a data traffic amount of the particular computer port exceeds a predetermined reference value.

14. A non-transitory computer readable medium in management computer coupled to a plurality of computers, including a plurality of computer ports, and coupled to a plurality of storage apparatuses, including a plurality of storage ports and a plurality of volumes, the non-transitory computer readable medium including code executable by a processor to:

store topological information including topological information of the computer ports and the storage ports;

store performance information of the computer ports and the storage ports;

identify, after a particular computer having a particular computer port whose performance satisfies a predetermined condition is identified, a storage port corresponding to an access path from the particular computer to one of the plurality of storage apparatuses by referring to the topological information; and

output the performance information of the identified storage port.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 14,

wherein the predetermined condition is satisfied when an access time of the particular computer port exceeds a predetermined range.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 14,

wherein the predetermined condition is satisfied when a data traffic amount of the particular computer port exceeds a predetermined reference value.

17. In a management computer coupled to a plurality of computers, including a plurality of computer ports, and coupled to a plurality of storage apparatuses, including a plurality of storage ports and a plurality of volumes, a method comprising the steps of:

storing topological information including topological information of the computer ports and the storage ports;

storing performance information of the computer ports and the storage ports;

identifying, after a particular computer having a particular computer port related to a predetermined event is identified, a storage port corresponding to an access path from the particular computer to one of the plurality of storage apparatuses by referring to the topological information; and

after the storage port is identified, outputting the performance information of the identified storage port.

18. A method according to claim 17,

wherein the predetermined event occurs when an access time of the particular computer port exceeds a predetermined range.

19. A method according to claim 17,

wherein the predetermined event occurs when a data traffic amount of the particular computer port exceeds a predetermined reference value.