Cascading failover of a data management application for shared disk file systems in loosely coupled node clusters

    公开(公告)号:US06990606B2

    公开(公告)日:2006-01-24

    申请号:US09883113

    申请日:2001-06-15

    IPC分类号: G06F11/00

    CPC分类号: G06F11/2023 G06F11/2035

    摘要: Disclosed is a mechanism for handling failover of a data management application for a shared disk file system in a distributed computing environment having a cluster of loosely coupled nodes which provide services. According to the mechanism, certain nodes of the cluster are defined as failover candidate nodes. Configuration information for all the failover candidate nodes is stored preferably in a central storage. Message information including but not limited to failure information of at least one failover candidate node is distributed amongst the failover candidate nodes. By analyzing the distributed message information and the stored configuration information it is determined whether to take over the service of a failure node by a failover candidate node or not. After a take-over of a service by a failover candidate node the configuration information is updated in the central storage.

    Autonomic block-level hierarchical storage management for storage networks
    12.
    发明申请
    Autonomic block-level hierarchical storage management for storage networks 审中-公开
    存储网络的自动块级分层存储管理

    公开(公告)号:US20050071560A1

    公开(公告)日:2005-03-31

    申请号:US10954458

    申请日:2004-09-30

    申请人: Christian Bolik

    发明人: Christian Bolik

    IPC分类号: H04L29/06 H04L29/08 G06F12/08

    摘要: A Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) system connects client systems to physical storage devices via a storage virtualization system (SVS) which is embedded in a storage network. The SVS provides virtual disk volumes to the client systems as an abstraction of the physical storage devices. The client systems have no direct connection to the physical storage devices and the SVS provides an abstract view of these devices, which allows it to utilize the available physical storage space by spreading storage assigned to the individual client systems across the physical storage devices. Within the SVS, a block-mapping table (BMT) translates each virtual block address being issued by the client systems to a corresponding physical block address.

    摘要翻译: 分层存储管理(HSM)系统通过嵌入在存储网络中的存储虚拟化系统(SVS)将客户端系统连接到物理存储设备。 SVS为客户端系统提供虚拟磁盘卷,作为物理存储设备的抽象。 客户端系统与物理存储设备没有直接连接,SVS提供了这些设备的抽象视图,允许它通过在物理存储设备上分配分配给各个客户端系统的存储来利用可用的物理存储空间。 在SVS内,块映射表(BMT)将由客户端系统发出的每个虚拟块地址转换为对应的物理块地址。

    Controlling the Placement of Data in a Storage System
    13.
    发明申请
    Controlling the Placement of Data in a Storage System 有权
    控制存储系统中数据的放置

    公开(公告)号:US20130151804A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-06-13

    申请号:US13612196

    申请日:2012-09-12

    IPC分类号: G06F12/02

    摘要: A method, computer readable storage medium and computer system for controlling the allocation of data to one of a plurality of storage units of a storage system, the method comprising: accessing a source storage unit comprising the data; gathering file system level (FS-level) metadata from the source storage unit; analyzing the gathered FS-level metadata for determining if the data should be moved to one of the other storage units, said other storage unit acting as a destination storage unit; and in case the data should be moved, displaying an indication of the destination storage unit and/or automatically moving the data to the determined destination storage unit.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于控制向存储系统的多个存储单元之一分配数据的方法,计算机可读存储介质和计算机系统,所述方法包括:访问包括所述数据的源存储单元; 从源存储单元收集文件系统级(FS级)元数据; 分析收集的FS级元数据,以确定数据是否应移动到其他存储单元中的一个,所述另一个存储单元充当目的地存储单元; 并且在移动数据的情况下,显示目的地存储单元的指示和/或自动将数据移动到所确定的目的地存储单元。

    AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING AVAILABLE STORAGE COMPONENTS
    14.
    发明申请
    AUTOMATICALLY IDENTIFYING AVAILABLE STORAGE COMPONENTS 有权
    自动识别可用的存储组件

    公开(公告)号:US20090313395A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-12-17

    申请号:US12338139

    申请日:2008-12-18

    IPC分类号: G06F3/00

    摘要: A method for automatically identifying available storage components within a storage system, which are appropriate for storing consumer data in compliance with specified service level objectives (SLOs), including discovering available storage components; identifying and assigning service levels provided by each available storage component, wherein identifying and assigning service levels provided by each available storage component, includes classifying the available storage components based on their type of technology, and determining the SLO relevant capabilities of the available storage components; and storing resultant mapping of service levels to available storage components in a metadata repository.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于自动识别存储系统内的可用存储组件的方法,所述存储组件适于根据指定的服务级别目标(SLO)来存储消费者数据,包括发现可用的存储组件; 识别和分配由每个可用存储组件提供的服务级别,其中识别和分配由每个可用存储组件提供的服务级别,包括基于其技术类型对可用存储组件进行分类,以及确定可用存储组件的SLO相关能力; 并将服务水平的结果映射存储在元数据存储库中的可用存储组件。

    Cascading failover of a data management application for shared disk file systems in loosely coupled node clusters

    公开(公告)号:US07523345B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-04-21

    申请号:US11219106

    申请日:2005-09-01

    IPC分类号: G06F11/00

    CPC分类号: G06F11/2023 G06F11/2035

    摘要: Disclosed is a mechanism for handling failover of a data management application for a shared disk file system in a distributed computing environment having a cluster of loosely coupled nodes which provide services. According to the mechanism, certain nodes of the cluster are defined as failover candidate nodes. Configuration information for all the failover candidate nodes is stored preferably in a central storage. Message information including but not limited to failure information of at least one failover candidate node is distributed amongst the failover candidate nodes. By analyzing the distributed message information and the stored configuration information it is determined whether to take over the service of a failure node by a failover candidate node or not. After a take-over of a service by a failover candidate node the configuration information is updated in the central storage.

    Cascading failover of a data management application for shared disk file systems in loosely coupled node clusters

    公开(公告)号:US20060010338A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-01-12

    申请号:US11219106

    申请日:2005-09-01

    IPC分类号: G06F11/00

    CPC分类号: G06F11/2023 G06F11/2035

    摘要: Disclosed is a mechanism for handling failover of a data management application for a shared disk file system in a distributed computing environment having a cluster of loosely coupled nodes which provide services. According to the mechanism, certain nodes of the cluster are defined as failover candidate nodes. Configuration information for all the failover candidate nodes is stored preferably in a central storage. Message information including but not limited to failure information of at least one failover candidate node is distributed amongst the failover candidate nodes. By analyzing the distributed message information and the stored configuration information it is determined whether to take over the service of a failure node by a failover candidate node or not. After a take-over of a service by a failover candidate node the configuration information is updated in the central storage.

    Automated management of system credentials
    18.
    发明授权
    Automated management of system credentials 失效
    自动管理系统凭据

    公开(公告)号:US08539562B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-09-17

    申请号:US12963834

    申请日:2010-12-09

    IPC分类号: H04L9/00

    CPC分类号: G06F21/41 H04L9/0891

    摘要: One disclosed aspect of the present invention includes authentication and user account automation within a compute cluster for each cluster node that requires password or other credential administration. For example, a storage appliance computing system may rely on a plurality of subsystems (such as databases, storage management software, and application servers) that each have internal user accounts with associated passwords and credential keys that need to be changed at frequent intervals. Rather than requiring an administrator to manually manage all of these accounts, the presently described invention includes techniques and an authentication manager component to automatically manage, update, and refresh authentication information as required. Further, the authentication manager component may be used to perform and propagate automatic credential changes such as new sets of SSH keys or updated passwords as required within a computing system, and respond to new nodes or out-of-sync credentialing scenarios.

    摘要翻译: 本发明的一个公开的方面包括需要密码或其他凭证管理的每个集群节点的计算集群内的认证和用户帐户自动化。 例如,存储设备计算系统可以依赖于多个子系统(诸如数据库,存储管理软件和应用服务器),每个子系统具有内部用户帐户,其具有需要以频繁间隔改变的相关密码和凭证密钥。 目前描述的发明不是要求管理员手动管理所有这些帐户,而是包括根据需要自动管理,更新和刷新认证信息的技术和认证管理器组件。 此外,认证管理器组件可以用于在计算系统内根据需要执行和传播自动凭证更改,例如新的SSH密钥集或更新的密码,并响应新节点或不同步的认证情景。

    Automatically identifying available storage components
    19.
    发明授权
    Automatically identifying available storage components 有权
    自动识别可用的存储组件

    公开(公告)号:US07921246B2

    公开(公告)日:2011-04-05

    申请号:US12338139

    申请日:2008-12-18

    IPC分类号: G06F3/00

    摘要: A method for automatically identifying available storage components within a storage system, which are appropriate for storing consumer data in compliance with specified service level objectives (SLOs), including discovering available storage components; identifying and assigning service levels provided by each available storage component, wherein identifying and assigning service levels provided by each available storage component, includes classifying the available storage components based on their type of technology, and determining the SLO relevant capabilities of the available storage components; and storing resultant mapping of service levels to available storage components in a metadata repository.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于自动识别存储系统内的可用存储组件的方法,所述存储组件适于根据指定的服务级别目标(SLO)来存储消费者数据,包括发现可用的存储组件; 识别和分配由每个可用存储组件提供的服务级别,其中识别和分配由每个可用存储组件提供的服务级别,包括基于其技术类型对可用存储组件进行分类,以及确定可用存储组件的SLO相关能力; 并将服务水平的结果映射存储在元数据存储库中的可用存储组件。