Information processing system and access control method

• US 9,336,093 B2
• Filed: 05/09/2013
• Issued: 05/10/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Konishi, Yotaro
• Primary Examiner(s): KO, CHAE M
• Application Number:
  US13/890,726
• Publication Number:
  US 20140032960A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,097 Days
• Field of Search: 714/5.11, 714/42
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1456 Hardware arrangements for backup
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2025 using centralised failover control functionality
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2028 eliminating a faulty processor or activating a spare
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2033 switching over of hardware resources
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2035 without idle spare hardware
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2041 with more than one idle spare processing component
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2046 where the redundant components share persistent storage G06F11/2043 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2094 Redundant storage or storage space G06F11/2056 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3034 where the computing system component is a storage system, e.g. DASD based or network based digital input from or digital output to record carriers G06F3/06; digital recording or reproducing G11B20/18; 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], H04L67/1097
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3055 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the status of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring if the computing system is on, off, available, not available error or fault processing without redundancy G06F11/0703; error detection or correction by redundancy in data representation G06F11/08; error detection or correction by redundancy in operation G06F11/14; error detection or correction by redundancy in hardware G06F11/16

Abstract

An information processing system includes a plurality of storage devices, a plurality of data access devices, and a first processor. The first processor selects, when a first data access device permitted to access data in a first storage device fails, a second data access device other than the first data access device. The first data access device is included in the plurality of data access devices. The first storage device is included in the plurality of storage devices. The second data access device is included in the plurality of data access devices. The first processor permits the second data access device to access data in the first storage device. The first processor updates correspondence information, which indicates the first data access device as a transfer destination of a request to access first data in the first storage device, to indicate the second data access device as the transfer destination.

Claims

1. An information processing system comprising:

a plurality of storage devices;

a plurality of data access devices; and

a first processor to

select, when a first data access device permitted to access data in a first storage device fails, a second data access device other than the first data access device, the first data access device and the second access device being included in the plurality of data access devices, the first storage device being included in the plurality of storage devices,

permit the second data access device to access data in the first storage device, and

update correspondence information, which indicates the first data access device as a transfer destination of a request to access first data in the first storage device, to indicate the second data access device as the transfer destination so that a disk connection processing connects the second access device with the first storage device,

wherein the request to access the first data is transferred to the second data access device according to the update of the correspondence information, the first data is relayed to the second data access device based on the transfer of the request to the second data access device, and the request is one of a read operation and a write operation with respect to the first data.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the first processor manages the plurality of data access devices in groups, and

selects, as the second data access device, a data access device that belongs to a group to which the first data access device belongs.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the first processor selects, as the second data access device, a data access device whose communication path between the first storage device is shortest among the plurality of data access devices.

4. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the first processor selects, as the second data access device, a data access device having smallest number of storage devices permitted to access among the plurality of data access devices.

5. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the first processor manages the plurality of data access devices as to whether each of the plurality of data access devices is an active data access device or a standby data access device, the active data access device being providing a service, the standby data access device not being providing a service, and

selects a standby data access device as the second data access device.

6. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the first processor instructs the second data access device to create an environment to access the first storage device.

7. The information processing system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second processor to transfer the request to access the first data in the first storage device to the second data access device in accordance with the updated correspondence information.

8. The information processing system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a plurality of relay devices,

wherein the first processor instructs a first relay device to relay communication between the first storage device and the second data access device, the first relay device being included in the plurality of relay devices, the first relay device being connected to the first storage device or the second data access device.

9. An access control method, comprising:

selecting by a computer, when a first data access device permitted to access data in a first storage device fails, a second data access device other than the first data access device, the first data access device and the second access device being included in a plurality of data access devices, the first storage device being included in a plurality of storage devices;

permitting the second data access device to access data in the first storage device; and

updating correspondence information, which indicates the first data access device as a transfer destination of a request to access first data in the first storage device, to indicate the second data access device as the transfer destination so that a disk connection processing connects the second access device with the first storage device,

wherein the request to access the first data is transferred to the second data access device according to the update of the correspondence information, the first data is relayed to the second data access device based on the transfer of the request, and the request is one of a read operation and a write operation with respect to the first data.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a procedure, the procedure comprising:

selecting, when a first data access device permitted to access data in a first storage device fails, a second data access device other than the first data access device, the first data access device and the second access device being included in a plurality of data access devices, the first storage device being included in a plurality of storage devices;

permitting the second data access device to access data in the first storage device; and

updating correspondence information, which indicates the first data access device as a transfer destination of a request to access first data in the first storage device, to indicate the second data access device as the transfer destination so that a disk connection processing connects the second access device with the first storage device,

wherein the request to access the first data is transferred to the second data access device according to the update of the correspondence information, the first data is relayed to the second data access device based on the transfer of the request, and the request is one of a read operation and a write operation with respect to the first data.