公开(公告)号：US06981008B2

公开(公告)日：2005-12-27

申请号：US10685743

申请日：2003-10-14

申请人： Hideo Tabuchi ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Toshio Nakano

发明人： Hideo Tabuchi ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Toshio Nakano

IPC分类号： G06F12/16 ,  G06F3/06 ,  G06F11/20 ,  G06F12/00 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F7/00

CPC分类号： G06F11/2074 ,  G06F11/2064 ,  G06F2201/835 ,  Y10S707/959 ,  Y10S707/99955

摘要： In order to realize asynchronous type system assuring the consistency of data with the function of disk subsystems without the need of introducing new software to a host unit and without the deterioration of the performance of a main center, in a remote copy system which copies the data to the disk subsystems of the remote center for duplicating the data in the disk subsystems of the main center, the disk subsystems give serial numbers and times to the data together with writing said data to the storage devices in the disk subsystem and transfer said data to the other disk subsystems, and the other disk subsystems arrange the two or more data in the sequence of the serial numbers, decide the oldest time among the latest time given to each of the disk subsystems communicating among the disk subsystems and the data given with the time not later than the decided oldest time are the objects of writing to each of the disk storage devices.

摘要翻译： 为了实现异步类型系统，确保数据的一致性与磁盘子系统的功能，而不需要向主机单元引入新的软件，而不会降低主中心的性能，在复制数据的远程复制系统中 到远程中心的磁盘子系统，用于复制主中心的磁盘子系统中的数据，磁盘子系统向数据提供序列号和时间，并将所述数据写入磁盘子系统中的存储设备，并将所述数据传送到 其他磁盘子系统和其他磁盘子系统按照序列号的顺序排列两个或更多个数据，决定给予每个磁盘子系统之间的通信的最新时间中的最长时间，以及给定的数据 时间不晚于决定的最早的时​​间是写入每个磁盘存储设备的对象。

公开(公告)号：US20050267923A1

公开(公告)日：2005-12-01

申请号：US11177001

申请日：2005-07-07

申请人： Hideo Tabuchi ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Toshio Nakano

发明人： Hideo Tabuchi ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Toshio Nakano

IPC分类号： G06F12/16 ,  G06F3/06 ,  G06F11/20 ,  G06F12/00 ,  G06F13/00

CPC分类号： G06F11/2074 ,  G06F11/2064 ,  G06F2201/835 ,  Y10S707/959 ,  Y10S707/99955

摘要： In order to realize asynchronous type system assuring the consistency of data with the function of disk subsystems without the need of introducing new software to a host unit and without the deterioration of the performance of a main center, in a remote copy system which copies the data to the disk subsystems of the remote center for duplicating the data in the disk subsystems of the main center, the disk subsystems give serial numbers and times to the data together with writing said data to the storage devices in the disk subsystem and transfer said data to the other disk subsystems, and the other disk subsystems arrange the two or more data in the sequence of the serial numbers, decide the oldest time among the latest time given to each of the disk subsystems communicating among the disk subsystems and the data given with the time not later than the decided oldest time are the objects of writing to each of the disk storage devices.

公开(公告)号：US20050235107A1

公开(公告)日：2005-10-20

申请号：US11152490

申请日：2005-06-13

申请人： Hiroshi Ohno ,  Kouji Arai ,  Toshio Nakano ,  Hideo Tabuchi ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Ai Satoyama ,  Yasutomo Yamamoto ,  Yoshiaki Eguchi

发明人： Hiroshi Ohno ,  Kouji Arai ,  Toshio Nakano ,  Hideo Tabuchi ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Ai Satoyama ,  Yasutomo Yamamoto ,  Yoshiaki Eguchi

IPC分类号： G06F12/08 ,  G06F3/06 ,  G06F12/00 ,  G06F12/14 ,  G06F13/10 ,  G06F13/12

CPC分类号： G06F3/061 ,  G06F3/0607 ,  G06F3/0635 ,  G06F3/064 ,  G06F3/0659 ,  G06F3/0665 ,  G06F3/067 ,  G06F3/0689 ,  G06F12/0866 ,  G06F2212/312

摘要： A method for controlling a storage system including a host computer, and a first and a second storage control apparatuses each receiving a data input/output request from the host computer and executing a data input/output process for a storage device in response to the request, comprises connecting a first communication path between the host computer and the first apparatus; connecting a second communication path between the first apparatus and the second apparatus; receiving by the first apparatus a first data input/output request from the host computer through the first path; when the first apparatus has judged that the first request is not for the first apparatus, transmitting by the first apparatus a second data input/output request corresponding to the first request, to the second apparatus through the second path; and by the second apparatus, receiving the second request and executing a data input/output process corresponding to the second request received.

摘要翻译： 一种用于控制包括主计算机和第一和第二存储控制装置的存储系统的方法，每个存储控制装置接收来自主计算机的数据输入/输出请求，并响应于该请求执行存储装置的数据输入/输出处理 包括连接主计算机和第一装置之间的第一通信路径; 连接第一设备和第二设备之间的第二通信路径; 由第一装置接收通过第一路径从主机计算的第一数据输入/输出请求; 当第一装置判断第一请求不是针对第一装置时，由第一装置发送与第一请求相对应的第二数据输入/输出请求，通过第二路径发送给第二装置; 并且由第二装置接收第二请求并执行与接收到的第二请求对应的数据输入/输出处理。

公开(公告)号：US20050149675A1

公开(公告)日：2005-07-07

申请号：US11057754

申请日：2005-02-15

申请人： Akinobu Shimada ,  Hideo Tabuchi ,  Yasuaki Nakamura ,  Kozue Fujii ,  Shotaro Ohno

发明人： Akinobu Shimada ,  Hideo Tabuchi ,  Yasuaki Nakamura ,  Kozue Fujii ,  Shotaro Ohno

IPC分类号： G06F3/06 ,  G06F12/00 ,  G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F3/0665 ,  G06F3/0605 ,  G06F3/0622 ,  G06F3/0637 ,  G06F3/0644 ,  G06F17/30067

摘要： A subsystem logics partitioning and managing apparatus comprises a recognition unit for recognizing logical and physical resources that constitute a subsystem a partition definition table in which the logical and physical resources in the subsystem are assigned for each user at an interface level at which a storage configuration can be referenced by a storage management program an account table in which an account is set for each user-specific partition defined in the partition definition table a receiving unit for receiving a user account transmitted from an information processing unit and checking the received user account against the account table, to recognize a partition that corresponds to the user and a unit for outputting, at a GUI level, logical resources and physical resources that are contained in the recognized partition to an output interface as a resource configuration in the subsystem.

公开(公告)号：US20050022049A1

公开(公告)日：2005-01-27

申请号：US10892958

申请日：2004-07-16

申请人： Hideo Tabuchi ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Masafumi Nozawa ,  Toshio Nakano

发明人： Hideo Tabuchi ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Masafumi Nozawa ,  Toshio Nakano

IPC分类号： G06F3/06 ,  G06F11/14 ,  G06F11/20 ,  G06F12/00 ,  G06F11/00

CPC分类号： G06F11/2074 ,  G06F11/2066

摘要： A disk subsystem assures the sequence and the coherence of data updating with two or more disk subsystems is provided with an asynchronous remote copy function. A main center 9 includes a computer system having the configuration of slave subsystems 3-2 to 3-n connected with a master disk subsystem 3-1. It secures the coherence between data at the main center 9 and the remote center 10 at the temporary suspension by repeating temporary suspension and release of the temporary suspension of the remote copy by the master subsystem 3-1 at predetermined opportunities. It also repeats temporary suspension and release of the temporary suspension of the remote copy by slave subsystems 3-2 to 3-n connected to it.

摘要翻译： 磁盘子系统确保序列，并且具有两个或多个磁盘子系统的数据更新的一致性被提供有异步远程复制功能。 主中心9包括具有与主盘子系统3-1连接的从属子系统3-2至3-n的配置的计算机系统。 通过主机子系统3-1在预定的机会下重复暂时中止和释放远程副本的暂时中止，从而在临时停机时确保主中心9和远程中心10的数据之间的一致性。 它还重复暂停和释放与其相连的从属子系统3-2至3-n的远程副本的临时暂停。

公开(公告)号：US20120191928A1

公开(公告)日：2012-07-26

申请号：US13437959

申请日：2012-04-03

申请人： Yasuaki NAKAMURA ,  Hideo Tabuchi

发明人： Yasuaki NAKAMURA ,  Hideo Tabuchi

IPC分类号： G06F12/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/30156 ,  G06F17/30197

摘要： A storage arrangement including: a first storage system having one or more first logical storage devices and a second storage system having one or more second logical storage devices, configured to: a) determine whether two or more identical contents hash values are contained in a plurality of contents hash values of said plurality of files; and b) change an access destination of a first file corresponding to a first contents hash value from among said two or more identical contents hash values, to a position of a second file corresponding to a second contents hash value if there are said two or more identical contents hash values, c) do not migrate said first file to said second storage system, and migrate said second file to said second storage system to store in any of said one or more second logical storage devices.

摘要翻译： 一种存储装置，包括：具有一个或多个第一逻辑存储设备的第一存储系统和具有一个或多个第二逻辑存储设备的第二存储系统，其被配置为：a）确定在多个中包含两个或多个相同的内容散列值 的所述多个文件的内容哈希值; 以及b）如果存在所述两个或多个内容散列值，则将对应于第一内容散列值的第一文件的访问目的地从所述两个或更多个相同内容散列值改变为对应于第二内容散列值的第二文件的位置 相同的内容散列值，c）不将所述第一文件迁移到所述第二存储系统，并将所述第二文件迁移到所述第二存储系统以存储在所述一个或多个第二逻辑存储设备中的任一个中。

公开(公告)号：US08108644B2

公开(公告)日：2012-01-31

申请号：US12037482

申请日：2008-02-26

申请人： Masataka Innan ,  Hideo Tabuchi

发明人： Masataka Innan ,  Hideo Tabuchi

IPC分类号： G06F12/00

CPC分类号： G06F12/023

摘要： The storage control apparatus of the present invention saves a table for managing a virtual volume in a pool and keeps the state of the table in the latest state. A first dynamic mapping table (DMT) that manages a first virtual volume is saved in a first pool. Upon receipt of a write command relating to an unused virtual slot from a write command issuing device, a first virtual volume control unit assigns an unused real slot in the first pool to the virtual slot and updates the first DMT. The first virtual volume control unit discriminates the validity of the received data and, in cases where “0” data are received, releases the assigned real slot, updates the first DMT once again, and discards the received data. In cases where the received data are valid data, de-staging is performed following a DMT update.

摘要翻译： 本发明的存储控制装置将用于管理虚拟卷的表保存在池中并使表的状态保持在最新状态。 管理第一个虚拟卷的第一个动态映射表（DMT）被保存在第一个池中。 在从写入命令发布装置接收到与未使用的虚拟时隙相关的写入命令时，第一虚拟卷控制单元将第一池中的未使用的真实时隙分配给虚拟时隙，并更新第一DMT。 第一虚拟卷控制单元识别接收到的数据的有效性，并且在接收到“0”数据的情况下，释放分配的实时时隙，再次更新第一DMT，并丢弃所接收的数据。 在接收到的数据是有效数据的情况下，在DMT更新之后执行去除。

公开(公告)号：US08086877B2

公开(公告)日：2011-12-27

申请号：US12232218

申请日：2008-09-12

申请人： Keitaro Ikejiri ,  Masataka Innan ,  Hideo Tabuchi

发明人： Keitaro Ikejiri ,  Masataka Innan ,  Hideo Tabuchi

IPC分类号： G06F1/26 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F11/00

CPC分类号： G06F3/0625 ,  G06F1/3221 ,  G06F1/3268 ,  G06F3/0644 ,  G06F3/0649 ,  G06F3/0665 ,  G06F3/0689 ,  G11B19/209 ,  Y02D10/154

摘要： A storage device is provided with: a first management section that manages a storage area provided by one or more hard disk drives on a basis of a predetermined unit created using one or more parameters; a second management section that manages, on a basis of a pool configured by at least one or more of the units, a management policy about the capacity of the pools and a threshold value of the storage capacity of the pools; a power supply control section that controls each of the hard disk drives of the unit under the management of the first management section to be in either a first turn-ON state or a second turn-ON state with a low power consumption; and a control section that selects, when the storage capacity of any of the pools exceeds the threshold value, the management policy of the pools, and any of the managed parameters considered optimum to serve as the unit of the storage area, and after making the power supply control section to change the state of the hard disk drive of the selected unit from the second turn-ON state to the first turn-ON state, adds the unit of the storage area to the capacity of the pool. With such a configuration, the storage device can achieve reduction of power consumption, simplification of management, and increase of use efficiency of storage resources.

摘要翻译： 存储装置具有：第一管理部，其基于使用一个或多个参数创建的预定单元管理由一个或多个硬盘驱动器提供的存储区域; 第二管理部分，其基于由至少一个或多个所述单元配置的池，管理关于所述池的容量的管理策略和所述池的所述存储容量的阈值; 电源控制部，其在所述第一管理部的管理下将所述单元的所述硬盘驱动器控制为处于低功耗的第一导通状态或第二导通状态; 以及控制部，其当所述池中的任何一个的存储容量超过所述阈值时，选择所述池的管理策略，以及所述管理参数被认为是最佳的，以用作所述存储区域的单位，并且在 电源控制部分将所选择的单元的硬盘驱动器的状态从第二导通状态改变到第一导通状态，将存储区域的单位添加到池的容量。 通过这样的结构，存储装置能够实现功耗的降低，管理简化，存储资源的使用效率的提高。

公开(公告)号：US07496718B2

公开(公告)日：2009-02-24

申请号：US10992312

申请日：2004-11-17

申请人： Hiroshi Ohno ,  Kiichiro Urabe ,  Toshio Nakano ,  Hideo Tabuchi

发明人： Hiroshi Ohno ,  Kiichiro Urabe ,  Toshio Nakano ,  Hideo Tabuchi

IPC分类号： G06F12/00 ,  G06F12/16

CPC分类号： G06F3/065 ,  G06F3/061 ,  G06F3/0619 ,  G06F3/067 ,  G06F11/2058 ,  G06F11/2071 ,  Y10S707/99953 ,  Y10S707/99955

摘要： A method for copying information from a first storage subsystem to a second storage subsystem is disclosed. The first and second storage subsystems are provided in a data storage system. The method comprises transmitting first data block from the first storage subsystem to the second storage subsystem, the first storage subsystem being associated with a first host computer and the second storage subsystem being associated with a second host computer; and transmitting first attribute information from the first storage subsystem to the second storage subsystem without intervention from the first host computer.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种将信息从第一存储子系统复制到第二存储子系统的方法。 第一和第二存储子系统被提供在数据存储系统中。 该方法包括将第一数据块从第一存储子系统发送到第二存储子系统，第一存储子系统与第一主计算机相关联，第二存储子系统与第二主计算机相关联; 以及在没有来自所述第一主计算机的介入的情况下将第一属性信息从所述第一存储子系统发送到所述第二存储子系统。

公开(公告)号：US07412543B2

公开(公告)日：2008-08-12

申请号：US11338797

申请日：2006-01-25

申请人： Hiroshi Ohno ,  Kouji Arai ,  Toshio Nakano ,  Hideo Tabuchi ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Ai Satoyama ,  Yasutomo Yamamoto ,  Yoshiaki Eguchi

发明人： Hiroshi Ohno ,  Kouji Arai ,  Toshio Nakano ,  Hideo Tabuchi ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Ai Satoyama ,  Yasutomo Yamamoto ,  Yoshiaki Eguchi

IPC分类号： G06F3/00

CPC分类号： G06F3/061 ,  G06F3/0607 ,  G06F3/0635 ,  G06F3/064 ,  G06F3/0659 ,  G06F3/0665 ,  G06F3/067 ,  G06F3/0689 ,  G06F12/0866 ,  G06F2212/312

摘要： A method for controlling a storage system including a host computer, and a first and a second storage control apparatuses each receiving a data input/output request from the host computer and executing a data input/output process for a storage device in response to the request, comprises connecting a first communication path between the host computer and the first apparatus; connecting a second communication path between the first apparatus and the second apparatus; receiving by the first apparatus a first data input/output request from the host computer through the first path; when the first apparatus has judged that the first request is not for the first apparatus, transmitting by the first apparatus a second data input/output request corresponding to the first request, to the second apparatus through the second path; and by the second apparatus, receiving the second request and executing a data input/output process corresponding to the second request received.

摘要翻译： 一种用于控制包括主计算机和第一和第二存储控制装置的存储系统的方法，每个存储控制装置接收来自主计算机的数据输入/输出请求，并响应于该请求执行存储装置的数据输入/输出处理 包括连接主计算机和第一装置之间的第一通信路径; 连接第一设备和第二设备之间的第二通信路径; 由第一装置接收通过第一路径从主机计算的第一数据输入/输出请求; 当第一装置判断第一请求不是针对第一装置时，由第一装置发送与第一请求相对应的第二数据输入/输出请求，通过第二路径发送给第二装置; 并且由第二装置接收第二请求并执行与接收到的第二请求对应的数据输入/输出处理。