Computer system, management apparatus and management method

• US 7,930,380 B2
• Filed: 01/09/2008
• Issued: 04/19/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Maki, Nobuhiro, Nagai, Takayuki, Shinohara, Daisuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Avellino; Joseph E
• Assistant Examiner(s): KHAN, AFTAB N
• Application Number:
  US11/971,289
• Publication Number:
  US 20090089412A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,196 Days
• Field of Search: 708/104, 708/105, 709/225, 709/226, 709/223, 718/105
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B

Abstract

The computer system includes: a first storage system having devices that are various components for storing data transmitted from a host computer; a second storage system having devices that are various components for storing data transmitted from the first storage system; and a management apparatus that manages the first and second storage systems. The management apparatus includes a storage unit that stores configuration information, performance information and threshold values used for performance management regarding the devices in the first and second storage systems connected to the management apparatus; and a setting section that adopts and sets, when internal management information and data are copied from the first storage system to the second storage system, threshold values assigned to the devices in the first storage system to the devices in the second storage systems.

Claims

1. A computer system, comprising:

a first storage system including devices that are various components required for storing data transmitted from a host computer;

a second storage system that is coupled to the first storage system via a network, and includes devices that are various components required for storing data transmitted from the first storage system; and

a management apparatus that is coupled to the first and second storage systems via a network, and manages the first and second storage systems,

wherein the management apparatus includes;

a storage unit for storing configuration information, model information, performance information, threshold recalculation policy information and threshold values used for performance management regarding the devices in the first and second storage systems coupled to the management apparatus; and

a setting unit that adopts and sets, when internal management information and data are copied from the first storage system to the second storage system, the threshold values assigned to the devices in the first storage systems as a basis to determine threshold values assigned to the devices in the second storage systems;

wherein the management apparatus;

checks by referencing the model information, whether there is any change in a model between a source device in a migration source storage system and a destination device in a migration destination storage system;

when there is a change in the model, refers to the threshold recalculation policy information to determine whether the threshold value needs to be recalculated;

when the threshold value needs to be recalculated, determines from the threshold recalculation policy information, a performance value to be used as a recalculation policy for obtaining a recalculated ratio when the threshold value is changed in accordance with a performance of the destination device;

refers to the performance information to determine whether the performance value has been designated for the destination device;

checks whether the management apparatus stores the performance value for the destination device; and

when the management apparatus stores the performance value, recalculates the threshold value using the recalculation policy from the threshold recalculation policy information.

2. The computer system according to claim 1, where the devices in the first storage system and the second storage system have the same physical configuration and the same performance.

3. The computer system according to claim 1, wherein a threshold re-calculation unit averages, when a plurality of devices in the first storage system are integrated to one device in the second storage system, the threshold values assigned to the plurality of devices and sets the resulting threshold value as a threshold value for the integrated device.

4. The computer system according to claim 1, wherein the devices to which the threshold values are assigned are each a RAID group defined by a plurality of magnetic disks, a controller for controlling the first or second storage system, or a port used for coupling with the host computer.

5. A method for determining threshold recalculation in a computer system including:

a first storage system including devices that are various components required for storing data transmitted from a host computer;

a second storage system that is coupled to the first storage system via a network, and includes devices that are various components required for storing data transmitted from the first storage system; and

a management apparatus that is coupled to the first and second storage systems via a network, and manages the first and second storage systems,

wherein the management apparatus includes;

a storage unit for storing configuration information, model information, performance information, threshold recalculation policy information and threshold values used for performance management regarding the devices in the first and second storage systems coupled to the management apparatus; and

a setting unit that adopts and sets, when internal management information and data are copied from the first storage system to the second storage system, the threshold values assigned to the devices in the first storage systems as a basis to determine threshold values assigned to the devices in the second storage systems;

wherein the method is effected by the management apparatus which;

checks by referencing the model information, whether there is any change in a model between a source device in a migration source storage system and a destination device in a migration destination storage system;

when there is a change in the model, refers to the threshold recalculation policy information to determine whether the threshold value needs to be recalculated;

when the threshold value needs to be recalculated, determines from the threshold recalculation policy information, a performance value to be used as a recalculation policy for obtaining a recalculated ratio when the threshold value is changed in accordance with a performance of the destination device;

refers to the performance information to determine whether the performance value has been designated for the destination device;

checks whether the management apparatus stores the performance value for the destination device; and

when the management apparatus stores the performance value, recalculates the threshold value using the recalculation policy from the threshold recalculation policy information.