公开(公告)号：US07373390B2

公开(公告)日：2008-05-13

申请号：US10687637

申请日：2003-10-20

申请人： Hideo Tabuchi ,  Masafumi Nozawa ,  Akinobu Shimada

发明人： Hideo Tabuchi ,  Masafumi Nozawa ,  Akinobu Shimada

IPC分类号： G06F15/16 ,  G06F12/00 ,  G06F13/00

CPC分类号： G06F11/2074 ,  G06F11/2064 ,  G06F11/2076

摘要： An asynchronous remote copy system which can ensure the data renewal order and data integrity of the disk subsystems. The system provides for data mirroring by a main center having a gateway and a remote center having a gateway, and storage systems in each center connected to the corresponding gateway. Data is mirrored through synchronous type remote copy between volumes of the storage systems of each center. The gateway of the main center sends the renewal data to the gateway of the remote center in accordance with the order of renewal of volumes, to make the gateway of the remote center reflect the renewal data upon the volumes thereof through asynchronous type remote copy.

摘要翻译： 一种异步远程复制系统，可以确保磁盘子系统的数据更新顺序和数据完整性。 该系统提供具有网关和具有网关的远程中心的主中心的数据镜像，以及连接到对应网关的每个中心中的存储系统。 通过每个中心的存储系统卷之间的同步类型远程复制镜像数据。 主中心的网关根据卷的更新顺序将更新数据发送到远程中心的网关，使得远程中心的网关通过异步类型的远程副本反映其卷上的更新数据。

公开(公告)号：US20070055820A1

公开(公告)日：2007-03-08

申请号：US11594787

申请日：2006-11-09

申请人： Yoshiaki Eguchi ,  Yasutomo Yamamoto ,  Ai Satoyama ,  Akinobu Shimada

发明人： Yoshiaki Eguchi ,  Yasutomo Yamamoto ,  Ai Satoyama ,  Akinobu Shimada

IPC分类号： G06F12/16 ,  G06F12/00

CPC分类号： G06F3/0653 ,  G06F3/061 ,  G06F3/0631 ,  G06F3/0635 ,  G06F3/0647 ,  G06F3/067 ,  G06F11/3485 ,  G06F2206/1012 ,  Y10S707/99932

摘要： In a storage subsystem, performance tuning is performed with respect to all of the logical devices including external storage subsystems that are not directly connected to host computers. The physical storage units presented by the external storage subsystems are defined as logical devices of the storage subsystem, and I/O processing requests from the host computers are relayed to the logical devices. At the time of relaying, I/O processing conditions are monitored. When the load of an external storage subsystem is high, then operating conditions of ports and processors are examined. When the load can be reduced by changing the configuration of those ports and processors, the configuration is changed to reduce the load. When the load can not be reduced, data is migrated from a logical device having a high load to a logical device having a sufficient performance.

摘要翻译： 在存储子系统中，对于所有逻辑设备执行性能调整，包括不直接连接到主机的外部存储子系统。 由外部存储子系统呈现的物理存储单元被定义为存储子系统的逻辑设备，并且来自主计算机的I / O处理请求被中继到逻辑设备。 在中继时，监视I / O处理条件。 当外部存储子系统的负载很高时，检查端口和处理器的工作条件。 当通过改变这些端口和处理器的配置可以减少负载时，更改配置以减少负载。 当负载不能减小时，数据从具有高负载的逻辑设备迁移到具有足够性能的逻辑设备。

公开(公告)号：US5235641A

公开(公告)日：1993-08-10

申请号：US668098

申请日：1991-03-12

申请人： Masafumi Nozawa ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Toshifumi Nishimura ,  Katsuharu Kakuse ,  Tokuhiro Tsukiyama ,  Kiyoshi Yata ,  Yasuhiro Ishii ,  Kazuo Takaragi ,  Yasushi Kuba ,  Fujio Fujita

发明人： Masafumi Nozawa ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Toshifumi Nishimura ,  Katsuharu Kakuse ,  Tokuhiro Tsukiyama ,  Kiyoshi Yata ,  Yasuhiro Ishii ,  Kazuo Takaragi ,  Yasushi Kuba ,  Fujio Fujita

IPC分类号： G06F12/00 ,  G06F1/00 ,  G06F21/00 ,  G09C1/00

CPC分类号： G06F21/6209 ,  G06F2221/2107

摘要： In an information processing system having an upper rank apparatus and an external storage device which performs transmission and reception of data between the storage device and the upper rank apparatus, at least one of encryption and decryption of the data by use of an algorithm controlled by a desired data key is performed in the external storage device, while generation, encryption and decryption of the data key are performed on the upper rank apparatus side. By this configuration, the burden of the upper rank apparatus is largely reduced and the secrecy of data stored in the external storage device can be surely kept without spoiling the throughput of the whole system.

摘要翻译： 在具有上位装置和外部存储装置的信息处理系统中，在存储装置和上位装置之间执行数据的发送和接收，通过使用由 在外部存储装置中执行期望的数据密钥，而在上位装置侧执行数据密钥的生成，加密和解密。 通过这种配置，大大减少了上位装置的负担，并且可以可靠地保持存储在外部存储装置中的数据的保密性，而不会破坏整个系统的吞吐量。

公开(公告)号：US08281098B2

公开(公告)日：2012-10-02

申请号：US13237123

申请日：2011-09-20

申请人： Yoshiaki Eguchi ,  Yasutomo Yamamoto ,  Ai Satoyama ,  Akinobu Shimada

发明人： Yoshiaki Eguchi ,  Yasutomo Yamamoto ,  Ai Satoyama ,  Akinobu Shimada

IPC分类号： G06F12/00

CPC分类号： G06F3/0653 ,  G06F3/061 ,  G06F3/0631 ,  G06F3/0635 ,  G06F3/0647 ,  G06F3/067 ,  G06F11/3485 ,  G06F2206/1012 ,  Y10S707/99932

摘要： The storage system includes a first storage system and a second storage system. The first storage system, which is coupled to a computer and the second storage system, includes a first storage control device and a plurality of first storage units. The second storage system includes a plurality of second storage units. The first storage control device provides the computer with a logical unit assigned to at least one of the second storage units, receives a first access request from the computer and sends a second access request to one of plurality of the second storage units, obtains performance information relating to the second access request, and moves data stored in at least one of the plurality of second storage units to at least one of the first storage units according to the performance information.

摘要翻译： 存储系统包括第一存储系统和第二存储系统。 耦合到计算机和第二存储系统的第一存储系统包括第一存储控制装置和多个第一存储单元。 第二存储系统包括多个第二存储单元。 第一存储控制装置向计算机提供分配给第二存储单元中的至少一个的逻辑单元，从计算机接收第一访问请求并将第二访问请求发送到多个第二存储单元中的一个，获得性能信息 涉及第二访问请求，并且根据性能信息将存储在多个第二存储单元中的至少一个的数据移动到第一存储单元中的至少一个。

公开(公告)号：US08108337B2

公开(公告)日：2012-01-31

申请号：US12187298

申请日：2008-08-06

申请人： Kenneth Wayne Boyd ,  Kenneth Fairclough Day, III ,  Gerardo De Jesus Frias Garcia ,  John Earle Lindley ,  Gregory Edward McBride ,  Ryusuke Ito ,  Yasumitsu Mizoguchi ,  Kenta Ninose ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Tsutomu Sukigara

发明人： Kenneth Wayne Boyd ,  Kenneth Fairclough Day, III ,  Gerardo De Jesus Frias Garcia ,  John Earle Lindley ,  Gregory Edward McBride ,  Ryusuke Ito ,  Yasumitsu Mizoguchi ,  Kenta Ninose ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Tsutomu Sukigara

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30575 ,  G06F11/2064 ,  G06F11/2074 ,  G06F2201/855

摘要： Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for controlling a first storage system receiving commands from a first and second managers to create a consistency group with a second storage system. Host writes are received at the first storage system, wherein the first storage system includes a first storage system primary site and a first storage system secondary site. The first storage system sends the host writes from the first storage system primary site to the first storage system secondary site. Host write operations are quiesced at the first storage system in response to a first command from a first manager. Host write operations are resumed at the first storage system in response to receiving a second command from the first manager. The first storage system receives a run command with a marker, wherein the marker indicates a cycle number to control the cycles of the first and second storage systems. The first storage system sends the marker from the first storage system primary site to the first storage system secondary site. The first storage system sends the marker to a second manager. The first storage system applies the host writes to the first storage system secondary site. The first storage system sends a first message to the first storage system primary site from the first storage system secondary site after completing the applying of the host writes. The first storage system sends a second message to the first manager indicating whether conformation was received from the first storage system secondary site that the host writes were applied.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于控制从第一和第二管理器接收命令以与第二存储系统一起创建一致性组的第一存储系统的方法，系统和制品。 在第一存储系统处接收主机写入，其中第一存储系统包括第一存储系统主站点和第一存储系统辅助站点。 第一个存储系统将主机写入从第一个存储系统主站点发送到第一个存储系统辅助站点。 响应于来自第一管理器的第一命令，主机写入操作在第一存储系统处于静止状态。 响应于从第一管理器接收到第二命令，在第一存储系统处恢复主机写入操作。 第一存储系统接收具有标记的运行命令，其中标记指示用于控制第一和第二存储系统的周期的循环数。 第一个存储系统将标记从第一个存储系统主站点发送到第一个存储系统辅助站点。 第一个存储系统将标记发送给第二个管理器。 第一个存储系统将主机写入应用于第一个存储系统辅助站点。 第一存储系统在完成主机写入的应用之后，从第一存储系统辅助站点向第一存储系统主站点发送第一消息。 第一存储系统向第一管理器发送第二消息，指示是否从主机写入的第一存储系统辅助站点接收到构造是否被应用。

公开(公告)号：US08099387B2

公开(公告)日：2012-01-17

申请号：US12131877

申请日：2008-06-02

申请人： Kenneth Wayne Boyd ,  Kenneth Fairclough Day, III ,  Gerardo De Jesus Frias Garcia ,  John Earle Lindley ,  Gregory Edward McBride ,  Ryusuke Ito ,  Yasumitsu Mizoguchi ,  Kenta Ninose ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Tsutomu Sukigara

发明人： Kenneth Wayne Boyd ,  Kenneth Fairclough Day, III ,  Gerardo De Jesus Frias Garcia ,  John Earle Lindley ,  Gregory Edward McBride ,  Ryusuke Ito ,  Yasumitsu Mizoguchi ,  Kenta Ninose ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Tsutomu Sukigara

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30575 ,  G06F11/2064 ,  G06F11/2074 ,  G06F2201/855

摘要： Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for managing consistency groups using heterogeneous replication engines replicating data. A common linkage manager issues a prepare to create consistency group command to a first replication manager and a second replication manager, wherein the first and second replication managers issue create consistency group commands to first and second replication engines, respectively, to form a consistency group of data at a first source storage and a second source storage to copy to a first target storage and second target storage, respectively. The first and second replication managers form a first consistency group and a second consistency group of data from the first and second source storages, respectively, that are consistent as of a point-in-time in response to the create consistency group command; transmitting, by the first and second replication managers, the data in the formed first and second consistency groups to a first journal and second journal, respectively. The first and second replication managers commit the data in the first and second consistency groups in the first and second journals to the first and second target storages, respectively, in response to the first and second replication managers receiving a commit command.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种使用异构复制引擎复制数据来管理一致性组的方法，系统和制品。 公共连接管理器发出准备以向第一复制管理器和第二复制管理器创建一致性组命令，其中第一和第二复制管理器分别向第一和第二复制引擎创建一致性组命令，以形成一致性组 分别在第一源存储器处的数据和第二源存储器复制到第一目标存储器和第二目标存储器。 第一和第二复制管理器分别形成来自第一和第二源存储器的第一一致性组和第二一致性数据组，其响应于创建一致性组命令而与时间点一致; 将所形成的第一和第二一致性组中的数据分别由第一和第二复制管理器传送到第一日志和第二日志。 响应于第一和第二复制管理器接收提交命令，第一和第二复制管理器将第一和第二日志中的第一和第二一致性组中的数据分别提交给第一和第二目标存储。

公开(公告)号：US07739463B2

公开(公告)日：2010-06-15

申请号：US12021784

申请日：2008-01-29

申请人： Hideo Tabuchi ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Masataka Innan

发明人： Hideo Tabuchi ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Masataka Innan

IPC分类号： G06F12/00

CPC分类号： G06F11/1435 ,  G06F11/1448 ,  G06F11/1456 ,  G06F11/1458 ,  G06F11/1469 ,  G06F2201/84 ,  Y10S707/99953

摘要： A computer system including: disk array system to cause a snapshot corresponding to the selected backup time accessible with the specific address to which the computer can access; wherein if the snapshot corresponding to the selected backup time is associated with the specific address to which the computer cannot access, then the disk array system making the snapshot accessible with an address to which the computer can access; and wherein the snapshot relates to differential data between initial backup data and actual backup data at the selected backup time, thereby an acquisition time of the snapshot is different than the selected backup time corresponding to the specific address that can be accessed initially by the computer.

摘要翻译： 一种计算机系统，包括：磁盘阵列系统，用于使与所选择的备份时间相对应的快照与计算机可访问的特定地址可访问; 其中如果与所选择的备份时间相对应的快照与计算机无法访问的特定地址相关联，则使得可以利用计算机可以访问的地址访问快照的磁盘阵列系统; 并且其中所述快照涉及在所选择的备份时间的初始备份数据和实际备份数据之间的差异数据，从而快照的获取时间不同于与计算机最初可以访问的特定地址相对应的所选择的备份时间。

公开(公告)号：US20100005329A1

公开(公告)日：2010-01-07

申请号：US12236529

申请日：2008-09-24

申请人： Masataka Innan ,  Shigeo Homma ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Hideo Tabuchi

发明人： Masataka Innan ,  Shigeo Homma ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Hideo Tabuchi

IPC分类号： G06F1/32 ,  G06F12/02 ,  G06F12/16

CPC分类号： G06F3/0643 ,  G06F1/3203 ,  G06F1/3268 ,  G06F3/0611 ,  G06F3/0625 ,  G06F3/0634 ,  G06F3/0649 ,  G06F3/067 ,  H04L67/1097 ,  Y02D10/154 ,  Y02D50/20

摘要： There is provided a storage system including a file server connecting to a computer over a network and a storage apparatus connecting to the file server connecting over the network, wherein the file server includes a first controller, the storage apparatus includes multiple storage devices having multiple storage areas and a second controller that controls accesses to the multiple storage areas, each of the multiple storage areas has at least one power saving mode among multiple power saving modes with different shift times from the power saving modes to a ready mode, the first controller, in response to the reception of data from the computer, sets an indicator relating to the performance of response to an access from the computer to the data and refers to the indicator of the data and selects a first storage area having the power saving mode satisfying the indicator, and the second controller stores the data to the first storage area.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种存储系统，包括通过网络连接到计算机的文件服务器和连接到通过网络连接的文件服务器的存储装置，其中文件服务器包括第一控制器，该存储装置包括具有多个存储器的多个存储装置 区域和控制对多个存储区域的访问的第二控制器，多个存储区域中的每一个在具有从省电模式到就绪模式的不同移位时间的多个省电模式之间具有至少一个省电模式，第一控制器， 响应于来自计算机的数据的接收，设置与从计算机到数据的访问的响应的性能有关的指示符，并且参考数据的指示符，并选择具有满足以下条件的省电模式的第一存储区域 指示符，并且第二控制器将数据存储到第一存储区域。

公开(公告)号：US07624241B2

公开(公告)日：2009-11-24

申请号：US11594787

申请日：2006-11-09

申请人： Yoshiaki Eguchi ,  Yasutomo Yamamoto ,  Ai Satoyama ,  Akinobu Shimada

发明人： Yoshiaki Eguchi ,  Yasutomo Yamamoto ,  Ai Satoyama ,  Akinobu Shimada

IPC分类号： G06F12/00

CPC分类号： G06F3/0653 ,  G06F3/061 ,  G06F3/0631 ,  G06F3/0635 ,  G06F3/0647 ,  G06F3/067 ,  G06F11/3485 ,  G06F2206/1012 ,  Y10S707/99932

摘要： In a storage subsystem, performance tuning is performed with respect to all of the logical devices including external storage subsystems that are not directly connected to host computers. The physical storage units presented by the external storage subsystems are defined as logical devices of the storage subsystem, and I/O processing requests from the host computers are relayed to the logical devices. At the time of relaying, I/O processing conditions are monitored. When the load of an external storage subsystem is high, then operating conditions of ports and processors are examined. When the load can be reduced by changing the configuration of those ports and processors, the configuration is changed to reduce the load. When the load can not be reduced, data is migrated from a logical device having a high load to a logical device having a sufficient performance.

摘要翻译： 在存储子系统中，对于所有逻辑设备执行性能调整，包括不直接连接到主机的外部存储子系统。 由外部存储子系统呈现的物理存储单元被定义为存储子系统的逻辑设备，并且来自主计算机的I / O处理请求被中继到逻辑设备。 在中继时，监视I / O处理条件。 当外部存储子系统的负载很高时，检查端口和处理器的工作条件。 当通过改变这些端口和处理器的配置可以减少负载时，更改配置以减少负载。 当负载不能减小时，数据从具有高负载的逻辑设备迁移到具有足够性能的逻辑设备。

公开(公告)号：US20090070538A1

公开(公告)日：2009-03-12

申请号：US12021784

申请日：2008-01-29

申请人： Hideo TABUCHI ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Masataka Innan

发明人： Hideo TABUCHI ,  Akinobu Shimada ,  Masataka Innan

IPC分类号： G06F12/16 ,  G06F12/00

CPC分类号： G06F11/1435 ,  G06F11/1448 ,  G06F11/1456 ,  G06F11/1458 ,  G06F11/1469 ,  G06F2201/84 ,  Y10S707/99953

摘要： A computer system including: disk array system to cause a snapshot corresponding to the selected backup time accessible with the specific address to which the computer can access; wherein if the snapshot corresponding to the selected backup time is associated with the specific address to which the computer cannot access, then the disk array system making the snapshot accessible with an address to which the computer can access; and wherein the snapshot relates to differential data between initial backup data and actual backup data at the selected backup time, thereby an acquisition time of the snapshot is different than the selected backup time corresponding to the specific address that can be accessed initially by the computer.

摘要翻译： 一种计算机系统，包括：磁盘阵列系统，用于使与所选择的备份时间相对应的快照与计算机可访问的特定地址可访问; 其中如果与所选择的备份时间相对应的快照与计算机无法访问的特定地址相关联，则使得可以利用计算机可以访问的地址访问快照的磁盘阵列系统; 并且其中所述快照涉及在所选择的备份时间的初始备份数据和实际备份数据之间的差异数据，从而快照的获取时间不同于与计算机最初可以访问的特定地址相对应的所选择的备份时间。