System and method for allocating virtual resources to application based on the connectivity relation among the virtual resources

• US 8,677,369 B2
• Filed: 09/21/2007
• Issued: 03/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Fujino, Shuji
• Primary Examiner(s): An, Meng
• Assistant Examiner(s): WU, BENJAMIN C
• Application Number:
  US11/859,683
• Publication Number:
  US 20080256546A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,370 Days
• Field of Search: 718/104
• US Class Current: 718/104
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/505 considering the load
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5083 Techniques for rebalancing the load in a distributed system

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method for allocating programs to resources suited to operating conditions thereof comprises generating composition management information for a plurality of resources based on management information relating to performance and capacity of each of the resources. The composition management information includes identification information for the resources used by a plurality of programs. The method further comprises searching for and locating the composition management information of a resource identified by the identification information for each of the programs, based on the composition management information of the resources, and generating program information which associates composition management information of each of the programs with the composition management information of the located resource; and outputting information indicating that a resource abnormality has occurred with one of the programs, in cases where the composition management information of the resource which is associated with the program in the program information corresponds to one or more rules for detecting a resource abnormality in the program.

Claims

1. A method of allocating at least one of a virtual resources to a business application,

wherein said virtual resources are unused available resources of a plurality of computer systems, the method comprising steps by a management server of:

providing a resource quantity necessary to execute said business application, said resource quantity being stored in a business application configuration table;

providing a usable quantity for each of said virtual resources, said usable quantity being stored in a resource configuration table;

providing a connectivity relation among said virtual resources, said connectivity relation being stored in said resource configuration table; and

allocating said usable quantity to said business application on the basis of said connectivity relation among said virtual resources when said usable quantity meets said resource quantity necessary for each resources;

wherein said connectivity relation between resources is a relation for a resource to call on another resource;

wherein said connectivity relation is based on detailed information from a section which manages said detailed information for each resource;

wherein said detailed information is information relating to a database used by said business application;

obtaining information of a data path which said business application utilizes;

obtaining information of a storage volume from said information of said data path;

specifying an identified storage volume as a virtual resource from said information of said storage volume; and

confirming said connectivity relation between said database and said storage volume.