Recording medium recording thereon virtual machine management program, management server device, and method for managing virtual machine

• US 8,438,563 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2009
• Issued: 05/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Hiroyuki, Maeda, Takashi, Kojima, Yuta
• Primary Examiner(s): Wu, Qing
• Application Number:
  US12/409,556
• Publication Number:
  US 20090249334A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,505 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 718/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/455 Emulation; Interpretation; Software simulation, e.g. virtualisation or emulation of application or operating system execution engines

Abstract

A virtual machine managing method includes: a dependence relation list generation step of detecting a dependence relation among virtual machines implemented on a physical machine and generating a dependence relation list, based on a detection result; a target management table generation step of reading, when a selection instruction for selecting a target virtual machine to be halted among the plurality of implemented virtual machines is detected; and a halted target presentation step of reading the virtual machine identification information on all of the virtual machines in dependence relation with the target virtual machine to be halted, and visually presenting the read virtual machine identification information on all of the target virtual machines to be halted.

Claims

1. A computer-readable, non transitory recording medium storing a virtual machine management program which causes a computer device for causing arbitrary virtual machines among a plurality of virtual machines implemented on a physical machine to cooperate with each other to execute a control process to execute a process for managing the plurality of virtual machines, wherein the virtual machine management program causes the computer device to execute:

a dependence relation list generation procedure which detects a dependence relation among the virtual machines implemented on the physical machine and, based on a result of the detection result, generates a dependence relation list table for managing, for each item of virtual machine identification information for identifying each of the virtual machines, the virtual machine identification information on the virtual machine in dependence relation with any of the virtual machines;

a target management table generation procedure which reads, when a selection instruction for selecting a target virtual machine to be halted among the plurality of implemented virtual machines is detected, the virtual machine identification information on all virtual machines in dependence relation with the target virtual machine to be halted which have been selected by the selection instruction from the dependence relation list table, and generates a target management table for managing read virtual machine identification information; and

a target presentation procedure which reads the virtual machine identification information from the target management table, and visually presents the read virtual machine identification information as identification information of a target virtual machine to be halted.

2. The computer-readable recording medium storing the virtual machine management program of claim 1, wherein, when the virtual machine identification information on all of the target virtual machines to be halted is visually presented, the target presentation procedure visually presents the virtual machine identification information on all of the target virtual machines to be halted based on a halt order with which the virtual machines among all of the target virtual machines to be halted are successively halted in descending order of the dependence relation.

3. The computer-readable recording medium storing the virtual machine management program of claim 2, wherein the virtual machine management program causes the computer device to further execute:

a halt operation procedure which successively halts the virtual machines among all of the target virtual machines to be halted in descending order of the dependence relation based on the halt order when a start instruction for starting a halt operation is detected during the presentation of the virtual machine identification information on all of the target virtual machines to be halted in the target presentation procedure.

4. The computer-readable recording medium storing the virtual machine management program of claim 3, wherein, when a halt of all of the target virtual machines to be halted is completed through the halt operation procedure, the target management table generation procedure checks a halt completion mark box in the target management table corresponding to the virtual machine identification information on the target virtual machines to be halted.

5. The computer-readable recording medium storing the virtual machine management program of claim 3, wherein, when a selection instruction for selecting a target virtual machine to be resumed among the halted virtual machines is detected, the target presentation procedure reads the virtual machine identification information on all virtual machines in dependence relation with the target virtual machine to be resumed which have been selected by the selection instruction from the target management table, and visually presents the read virtual machine identification information on all of the target virtual machines to be resumed.

6. The computer-readable recording medium storing the virtual machine management program of claim 5, wherein

when the virtual machine identification information on all of the target virtual machines to be resumed is visually presented, the target presentation procedure visually presents the virtual machine identification information on all of the target virtual machines to be resumed based on a resumption order with which, among all of the target halted virtual machines to be resumed, the halted virtual machines are successively resumed in ascending order of the dependence relation, and

the virtual machine management program causes the computer device to execute a resumption operation procedure which successively resumes, when a start instruction for starting a resumption operation is detected during the presentation of the virtual machine identification information on all of the target virtual machines to be resumed, the halted virtual machines among all of the target virtual machines to be resumed in ascending order of the dependence relation based on the resumption order.

7. The computer-readable recording medium storing the virtual machine management program of claim 6, wherein, when a resumption of all of the target virtual machines to be resumed is completed through the resumption operation procedure, the target management table generation procedure erases a checkmark in a halt completion mark box in the target management table corresponding to the virtual machine identification information on the target virtual machines to be resumed.

8. The computer-readable recording medium storing the virtual machine management program of claim 1, wherein the virtual machine management program causes the computer device to further execute:

a virtual machine list generation procedure which detects the virtual machines implemented on the physical machine and, based on the detection result, generates a virtual machine list table for managing the virtual machine identification information on the virtual machines implemented on the physical machine for each item of physical machine identification information for identifying the physical machine, and

the target management table generation procedure detects, based on a table content of the virtual machine list table generated in the virtual machine list generation procedure, the selection instruction for selecting the target virtual machine to be halted among the plurality of virtual machines implemented on a per physical machine basis.

9. The computer-readable recording medium storing the virtual machine management program of claim 3, wherein the halt operation procedure stores, among all of the target virtual machine to be halted, present states of the target virtual machines as states thereof immediately before a halt in descending order of the dependence relation, and then successively halts the virtual machines.

10. The computer-readable recording medium storing the virtual machine management program of claim 6, wherein

the halt operation procedure stores, among all of the target virtual machines to be halted, present states of the virtual machines as states thereof immediately before a halt in descending order of the dependence relation, and then successively halts the virtual machines, and

the resumption operation procedure successively resumes, among all of the target virtual machines to be resumed, the halted virtual machines with the states thereof immediately before the halt being stored in ascending order of the dependence relation.

11. A management server device that manages a physical machine, manages a plurality of virtual machines implemented on the physical machine, and enables arbitrary virtual machines among the plurality of virtual machines to cooperate with each other and to execute a control process, the management server device comprising:

a processor that executes a procedure using a storage device, the procedure including;

detecting a dependence relation among the virtual machines implemented on the physical machine based on a result of the detection;

generating, from the storage device, a dependence relation list table for managing, for each item of virtual machine identification information for identifying each of the virtual machines, the virtual machine identification information on the virtual machine in dependence relation with any of the virtual machines;

reading, when a selection instruction for selecting a target virtual machine to be halted among the plurality of implemented virtual machines is detected, the virtual machine identification information on all virtual machines in dependence relation with the target virtual machine to be halted which has been selected by the selection instruction from the dependence relation list table;

generating a target management table for managing read virtual machine identification information on the target virtual machines to be halted;

reading the virtual machine identification information on all of the virtual machines in dependence relation with the target virtual machine to be halted which have been selected by the selection instruction from the target management table; and

visually presenting the read virtual machine identification information on all of the target virtual machines to be halted.

12. The management server device according to claim 11, wherein, when the virtual machine identification information on all of the target virtual machines to be halted is visually presented, the processor visually presents the virtual machine identification information on all of the target virtual machines to be halted based on a halt order with which the virtual machines among all of the target virtual machines to be halted are successively halted in descending order of the dependence relation.

13. The management server device according to claim 12, wherein the procedure further includes:

successively halting the virtual machines among all of the target virtual machines to be halted in descending order of the dependence relation based on the halt order when a start instruction for starting a halt operation is detected during the presentation of the virtual machine identification information on all of the target virtual machines to be halted.

14. The management server device according to claim 13, wherein, when a halt of all of the target virtual machines to be halted is completed, the processor checks a halt completion mark box in the target management table corresponding to the virtual machine identification information on the target virtual machines to be halted.

15. The management server device according to claim 13, wherein, when a selection instruction for selecting a target virtual machine to be resumed among the halted virtual machines is detected, the processor reads the virtual machine identification information on all of virtual machines in dependence relation with the target virtual machine to be resumed which has been selected by the selection instruction from the target management table, and visually presents the read virtual machine identification information on all of the target virtual machines to be resumed.

16. The management server device according to claim 15, wherein

when the virtual machine identification information on all of the target virtual machines to be resumed is visually presented, the processor visually presents the virtual machine identification information on all of the target virtual machines to be resumed based on a resumption order with which, among all of the target halted virtual machines to be resumed, the halted virtual machines are successively resumed in ascending order of the dependence relation.

17. The management server device according to claim 16, wherein the procedure further includes:

successively resuming, when a start instruction for starting a resumption operation is detected during the presentation of the virtual machine identification information on all of the target virtual machines to be resumed, the halted virtual machines among all of the target virtual machines to be halted in ascending order of the dependence relation based on the resumption order.

18. The management server device according to claim 11, wherein the procedure includes:

detecting the virtual machines implemented on the physical machine and, based on the detection result;

generating a virtual machine list table for managing the virtual machine identification information on the virtual machines implemented on the physical machine for each item of physical machine identification information for identifying the physical machine, and

wherein the processor detects, based on a table content of the virtual machine list table, the selection instruction for selecting the target virtual machine to be halted among the plurality of virtual machines implemented on a per physical machine basis.

19. A virtual machine managing method for managing a plurality of virtual machines implemented on a physical machine by enabling arbitrary virtual machines among the plurality of virtual machines to cooperate with each other and to execute a control process, the method comprising:

detecting a dependence relation among the virtual machines implemented on the physical machine and generating, based on a detection result, a dependence relation list table for managing virtual machine identification information on the virtual machine in dependence relation with any of the virtual machines for each item of virtual machine identification information for identifying each of the virtual machines;

reading, when a selection instruction for selecting a target virtual machine to be halted among the plurality of implemented virtual machines is detected, the virtual machine identification information on all virtual machines in dependence relation with the target virtual machine to be halted which has been selected by the selection instruction from the dependence relation list table, and generating a target management table for managing the read virtual machine identification information on the target virtual machines to be halted; and

reading the virtual machine identification information on all of the virtual machines in dependence relation with the target virtual machine to be halted which have been selected by the selection instruction from the target management table, and visually presenting the read virtual machine identification information on all of the target virtual machines to be halted.

20. The virtual machine managing method according to claim 19, further comprising:

a resumed target presentation step of reading, when a selection instruction for selecting a target virtual machine to be resumed among the halted virtual machines is detected, the virtual machine identification information on all virtual machines in dependence relation with the target virtual machine to be resumed which have been selected by the selection instruction from the target management table, and visually presenting the read virtual machine identification information on all of the target virtual machines to be resumed.