Management computer and management program

• US 9,990,258 B2
• Filed: 01/31/2014
• Issued: 06/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Sagiyama, Tomoyuki, Uchida, Tomohito
• Primary Examiner(s): Bonzo, Bryce P
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gibson, Jonathan D
• Application Number:
  US15/024,638
• Publication Number:
  US 20160239391A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,586 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1484 involving virtual machines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/20 using active fault-masking, e.g. by switching out faulty elements or by switching in spare elements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/805 Real-time
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/46 Multiprogramming arrangements

Abstract

In a management computer, a memory stores: association information indicating an association among a first physical computer, a virtual computer that is implemented by the first physical computer, a first physical resource that is allocated to the virtual computer, and a user who uses the virtual computer; failure information indicating a failed physical resource; and an upper limit value for a destruction amount as an amount of a physical resource that has failed by being used by the user. A processor calculates the destruction amount, and transmits, upon determining that the first physical resource has failed, that the destruction amount is equal to or less than the upper limit value, and that any of a plurality of physical computers includes the second physical resource, to the first physical computer an instruction to allocate a second physical resource as a replacement for the first physical resource to the virtual computer.

Claims

1. A management computer comprising:

a memory;

a network interface coupled to a plurality of physical computers; and

a processor coupled to the memory and the network interface, wherein

the memory is configured to;

store association information indicating an association among a first physical computer that is in the plurality of physical computers, a virtual computer that is implemented by the first physical computer, a first physical resource that is in the first physical computer and allocated to the virtual computer, and a user who uses the virtual computer,

store failure information indicating a failed physical resource, and

store an upper limit value for a destruction amount being an amount of a physical resource that is of the same type as the first physical resource and that has failed by being used by the user, and

the processor is configured to;

calculate the destruction amount based on the association information and the failure information,

determine whether or not the destruction amount is equal to or less than the upper limit value,

determine based on the failure information whether or not the first physical resource fails,

determine, upon determining that the first physical resource fails and that the destruction amount is equal to or less than the upper limit value, based on the association information whether or not any of the plurality of physical computers includes a second physical resource that is usable as a replacement for the first physical resource, and

transmit, upon determining that any of the plurality of physical computers includes the second physical resource, to the first physical computer an instruction to allocate the second physical resource to the virtual computer as a replacement for the first physical resource, and

wherein the processor causes a display apparatus to display information based on the destruction amount.

2. The management computer according to claim 1, wherein

upon determining that the first physical resource fails and the destruction amount is equal to or less than the upper limit value, the processor determines whether or not the first physical computer includes the second physical resource based on the association information, and

upon determining that the first physical computer includes the second physical resource, the processor transmits to the first physical computer the instruction to allocate the second physical resource to the virtual computer as a replacement for the first physical resource.

3. The management computer according to claim 2, wherein

upon determining that the first physical resource fails, that the destruction amount is equal to or less than the upper limit value, and that the first physical computer does not include the second physical resource, the processor determines based on the association information whether or not any of the plurality of physical computers other than the first physical computer includes an alternative physical resource group that includes the second physical resource and that is equivalent to a physical resource group allocated to the virtual computer and including the first physical resource, and

upon determining that any of the plurality of physical computers other than the first physical computer includes the alternative physical resource group, the processor transmits to the first physical computer and the second physical computer an instruction to allocate the alternative physical resource group to the virtual computer, migrate the virtual computer from the first physical computer to a second physical computer including the alternative physical resource group, and release the physical resource group from the virtual computer.

4. The management computer according to claim 3, wherein

the memory is configured to store a history of use of the first physical resource by each of a plurality of users, and

the processor is configured to calculate the destruction amount for each of the plurality of users by distributing an amount of the first physical resource to the plurality of users based on the history of use of the first physical resource by the plurality of users.

5. The management computer according to claim 4, wherein

when the type is a non-volatile semiconductor memory, the processor receives from the first physical computer the number of times of writing on the non-volatile semiconductor memory by the virtual computer, and stores in the memory the number as the history of use.

6. The management computer according to claim 5, wherein

when the type is not the non-volatile semiconductor memory, the processor stores in the memory, as the history of use, the amount of the first physical resource allocated to the virtual computer.

7. The management computer according to claim 6, wherein

the virtual computer is a first logical partition created by logical partitioning of the first physical computer,

the association information indicates a Virtual Machine (VM) executed by the first logical partition,

upon determining that the destruction amount is larger than the upper limit value, the processor determines based on the association information whether or not any of the plurality of physical computers creates a second logical partition that is used by the user and that is able to execute the VM, and

upon determining that the second logical partition is created, the processor transmits to the first physical computer an instruction to migrate the VM from the first logical partition to the second logical partition.

8. The management computer according to claim 7, wherein

upon determining that the first physical resource fails, that the destruction amount is not larger than the upper limit value, that the first physical computer does not include the second physical resource, and that the alternative physical resource group does not exist, the processor determines based on the association information whether or not the second logical partition is created, and

upon determining that the second logical partition is created, the processor transmits to the first physical computer an instruction to migrate the VM from the first logical partition to the second logical partition.

9. The management computer according to claim 4, wherein

upon receiving recovery information indicating that the first physical resource is recovered, the processor subtracts an amount based on the first physical resource from the destruction amount, and determines whether or not the destruction amount is equal to or less than the upper limit value.

10. The management computer according to claim 1, wherein

when the first physical resource fails, the failure information is transmitted from the first physical computer to the processor, and

the processor is configured to receive the failure information from the first physical computer.

11. The management computer according to claim 10, wherein

the processor is configured to cause a display apparatus to display an input screen through which the failure information is input,

the failure information is input to an input apparatus in accordance with the display, and

the processor is configured to receive the failure information from the input apparatus.

12. The management computer according to claim 8, wherein

upon determining that the first physical resource fails, that the destruction amount is larger than the upper limit value, and that the second logical partition is not created, or upon determining that the destruction amount is equal to or less than the upper limit value, that the first physical computer does not include the second physical resource, that the alternative physical resource group does not exist, and that the second logical partition is not created, the processor transmits to the first physical computer an instruction to shut down the first logical partition.

13. The management computer according to claim 4, wherein

the processor calculates the destruction amount by adding an amount of the first physical resource distributed to the user to an amount of a physical resource which is of the type of one of the physical resource group and which is different from the first physical resource.