Data processing system configuring and transmitting access request frames with a field in channel command words to accommendate a plurality of logical device address data therein
    1.
    发明授权
    Data processing system configuring and transmitting access request frames with a field in channel command words to accommendate a plurality of logical device address data therein 有权
    数据处理系统通过信道命令字中的字段来配置和发送接入请求帧,以在其中建议多个逻辑设备地址数据

    公开(公告)号:US07373465B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-05-13

    申请号:US11268525

    申请日:2005-11-08

    IPC分类号: G06F13/00

    摘要: In a data processing system in which a host processing apparatus and a storage subsystem are connected via a channel interface, the present invention makes it possible to expand the number of logical device addresses in excess of the device address limitations of the channel interface, and also enhances the performance of parallel access processing for the same logical device. When an access request is generated for a logical device, the host processing apparatus stores the logical device address to be accessed in a prefix command of a channel command word (CCW) for the access request, sets this CCW in a device information block of a frame which complies with the channel interface, sets a parallel access identifier for identifying a plurality of accesses for the same device in a device address of this frame, and then sends this frame to the storage subsystem.

    摘要翻译: 在通过信道接口连接主机处理装置和存储子系统的数据处理系统中,本发明可以扩展超过信道接口的设备地址限制的逻辑设备地址的数量, 增强同一逻辑设备并行访问处理的性能。 当为逻辑设备生成访问请求时,主机处理设备将访问请求的信道命令字(CCW)的前缀命令中存储要访问的逻辑设备地址,将该CCW设置在设备信息块中 符合通道接口的帧,设置用于识别该帧的设备地址中的同一设备的多个接入的并行接入标识符,然后将该帧发送到存储子系统。

    Storage system and ownership transfer method
    2.
    发明授权
    Storage system and ownership transfer method 有权
    存储系统和所有权转让方式

    公开(公告)号:US07831744B2

    公开(公告)日:2010-11-09

    申请号:US12192251

    申请日:2008-08-15

    IPC分类号: G06F3/00 G06F5/00

    摘要: A storage system that includes: a plurality of microprocessors; a plurality of storage areas to be formed to a drive group; an assignment section that assigns, to each of the microprocessors, an ownership of accessing any of the storage areas; a management section that manages, as an operating ratio, a proportion of a time to be taken for each of the microprocessors to execute a request issued to each of the storage areas; a search section that searches, for transferring the ownership assigned to an arbitrary one of the microprocessors to any of the another microprocessor determined based on the operating ratio, one or more of the storage areas under the ownership of the arbitrary microprocessor for a transfer-target storage area; and a transfer section that transfers, to the another microprocessor, the ownership of the transfer-target storage area that is assigned to the arbitrary microprocessor. The resulting storage system can make full use of the performance capabilities of a storage device, and an ownership transfer method can be provided.

    摘要翻译: 一种存储系统,包括:多个微处理器; 要形成到驱动组的多个存储区域; 分配部分,其向每个微处理器分配访问任何存储区域的所有权; 管理部分,以每个所述微处理器执行向每个所述存储区域发出的请求的操作比率来管理所述时间的比例; 搜索部分,用于将分配给任意一个微处理器的所有权转让给基于所述操作比确定的另一个微处理器中的任何一个,用于所述任意微处理器的所有权的存储区域中的一个或多个用于转移目标 储藏区域; 以及向另一微处理器传送分配给任意微处理器的传送对象存储区域的所有权的传送部分。 所得到的存储系统可以充分利用存储设备的性能,并且可以提供所有权转移方法。

    STORAGE SYSTEM AND OWNERSHIP TRANSFER METHOD
    3.
    发明申请
    STORAGE SYSTEM AND OWNERSHIP TRANSFER METHOD 有权
    存储系统和所有权转移方法

    公开(公告)号:US20090307385A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-12-10

    申请号:US12192251

    申请日:2008-08-15

    IPC分类号: G06F13/28

    摘要: A storage system that includes: a plurality of microprocessors; a plurality of storage areas to be formed to a drive group; an assignment section that assigns, to each of the microprocessors, an ownership of accessing any of the storage areas; a management section that manages, as an operating ratio, a proportion of a time to be taken for each of the microprocessors to execute a request issued to each of the storage areas; a search section that searches, for transferring the ownership assigned to an arbitrary one of the microprocessors to any of the another microprocessor determined based on the operating ratio, one or more of the storage areas under the ownership of the arbitrary microprocessor for a transfer-target storage area; and a transfer section that transfers, to the another microprocessor, the ownership of the transfer-target storage area that is assigned to the arbitrary microprocessor. The resulting storage system can make full use of the performance capabilities of a storage device, and an ownership transfer method can be provided.

    摘要翻译: 一种存储系统,包括:多个微处理器; 要形成到驱动组的多个存储区域; 分配部分,其向每个微处理器分配访问任何存储区域的所有权; 管理部分,以每个所述微处理器执行向每个所述存储区域发出的请求的操作比率来管理所述时间的比例; 搜索部分,用于将分配给任意一个微处理器的所有权转让给基于所述操作比确定的另一个微处理器中的任何一个,用于所述任意微处理器的所有权的存储区域中的一个或多个用于转移目标 储藏区域; 以及向另一微处理器传送分配给任意微处理器的传送对象存储区域的所有权的传送部分。 所得到的存储系统可以充分利用存储设备的性能,并且可以提供所有权转移方法。

    Storage system with a data sort function
    4.
    发明申请
    Storage system with a data sort function 失效
    具有数据排序功能的存储系统

    公开(公告)号:US20050144168A1

    公开(公告)日:2005-06-30

    申请号:US10765098

    申请日:2004-01-28

    CPC分类号: G06F7/24 G06F12/0862

    摘要: A storage system, which can execute sort processing of data without affecting online service, is disclosed. A storage control device 12 receives a sort instruction specifying a record group for sorting and a sort key from a host device 1, reads the record group from an external storage device 11 into cache memory 123, and uses the cache memory 123 and a work area secured in the external storage device 11 to execute sort processing of the above record group, and again stores the sorted record group in a prescribed output area within the external storage device 11. When a plurality of sort instructions are received, work areas are allocated automatically without overlapping work areas. When record updates occur during online service, a snapshot of the updated records is taken, and sorting of the snapshot is performed.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种可以在不影响在线服务的情况下执行数据的分类处理的存储系统。 存储控制装置12接收指定用于分类的记录组和来自主机1的分类密钥的分类指令,将记录组从外部存储装置11读取到高速缓冲存储器123中,并使用高速缓冲存储器123和工作区 固定在外部存储装置11中以执行上述记录组的分类处理,并且将排序的记录组再次存储在外部存储装置11内的规定输出区域中。 当接收到多个分类指令时,工作区域被自动分配而不重叠工作区域。 当在线服务中发生记录更新时,将拍摄更新记录的快照,并执行快照排序。

    Data processing system
    5.
    发明申请
    Data processing system 有权
    数据处理系统

    公开(公告)号:US20070061463A1

    公开(公告)日:2007-03-15

    申请号:US11268525

    申请日:2005-11-08

    IPC分类号: G06F15/173

    摘要: In a data processing system in which a host processing apparatus and a storage subsystem are connected via a channel interface, the present invention makes it possible to expand the number of logical device addresses in excess of the device address limitations of the channel interface, and also enhances the performance of parallel access processing for the same logical device. When an access request is generated for a logical device, the host processing apparatus stores the logical device address to be accessed in a prefix command of a channel command word (CCW) for the access request, sets this CCW in a device information block of a frame which complies with the channel interface, sets a parallel access identifier for identifying a plurality of accesses for the same device in a device address of this frame, and then sends this frame to the storage subsystem.

    摘要翻译: 在通过信道接口连接主机处理装置和存储子系统的数据处理系统中,本发明可以扩展超过信道接口的设备地址限制的逻辑设备地址的数量, 增强同一逻辑设备并行访问处理的性能。 当为逻辑设备生成访问请求时,主机处理设备将访问请求的信道命令字(CCW)的前缀命令中存储要访问的逻辑设备地址,将该CCW设置在设备信息块中 符合通道接口的帧,设置用于识别该帧的设备地址中的同一设备的多个接入的并行接入标识符,然后将该帧发送到存储子系统。

    Storage system with a data sort function
    6.
    发明授权
    Storage system with a data sort function 失效
    具有数据排序功能的存储系统

    公开(公告)号:US07032085B2

    公开(公告)日:2006-04-18

    申请号:US10765098

    申请日:2004-01-28

    IPC分类号: G06F13/00

    CPC分类号: G06F7/24 G06F12/0862

    摘要: A storage system, which can execute sort processing of data without affecting online service, is disclosed. A storage control device 12 receives a sort instruction specifying a record group for sorting and a sort key from a host device 1, reads the record group from an external storage device 11 into cache memory 123, and uses the cache memory 123 and a work area secured in the external storage device 11 to execute sort processing of the above record group, and again stores the sorted record group in a prescribed output area within the external storage device 11. When a plurality of sort instructions are received, work areas are allocated automatically without overlapping work areas. When record updates occur during online service, a snapshot of the updated records is taken, and sorting of the snapshot is performed.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种可以在不影响在线服务的情况下执行数据的分类处理的存储系统。 存储控制装置12接收指定用于分类的记录组和来自主机1的分类密钥的分类指令,将记录组从外部存储装置11读取到高速缓冲存储器123中,并使用高速缓冲存储器123和工作区 固定在外部存储装置11中以执行上述记录组的分类处理,并且将排序的记录组再次存储在外部存储装置11内的规定输出区域中。 当接收到多个分类指令时,工作区域被自动分配而不重叠工作区域。 当在线服务中发生记录更新时,将拍摄更新记录的快照,并执行快照排序。

    Storage system comprising plurality of storage system modules
    7.
    发明授权
    Storage system comprising plurality of storage system modules 失效
    存储系统包括多个存储系统模块

    公开(公告)号:US08645658B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-02-04

    申请号:US12130071

    申请日:2008-05-30

    IPC分类号: G06F12/00

    摘要: A plurality of modules (1) and (2) comprise a plurality of virtual volumes with which the same volume identification number is associated. A module (2), which receives a write request from a computer, searches for an unallocated real area from among a plurality of real areas in the module (2) rather than from among a plurality of real areas in the other module (1) if a real area has not been allocated to a write-targeted virtual area in accordance with the write request. The module (2) allocates the real area retrieved from the module (2) to the write-targeted virtual area, and writes data according to the write request to this real area.

    摘要翻译: 多个模块(1)和(2)包括与其相关联的相同卷标识号的多个虚拟卷。 从计算机接收写入请求的模块(2)从模块(2)中的多个实际区域中而不是在另一个模块(1)中的多个实际区域中搜索未分配的实际区域, 如果根据写入请求没有将实际区域分配给写入目标虚拟区域。 模块(2)将从模块(2)检索的实际区域分配给写入目标虚拟区域,并将写入请求的数据写入该实际区域。

    BACKUP SYSTEM AND BACKUP METHOD
    8.
    发明申请
    BACKUP SYSTEM AND BACKUP METHOD 审中-公开
    备份系统和备份方法

    公开(公告)号:US20130282998A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-10-24

    申请号:US13509174

    申请日:2012-04-24

    IPC分类号: G06F12/16

    CPC分类号: G06F11/2069 G06F11/1456

    摘要: A backup system and backup method with which the processing time can be shortened without increasing the overhead and burden on the system administrator in a two-stage backup.In a backup system which executes a two-stage backup, the storage apparatus searches for a secondary volume which can be paired with a primary volume on the basis of the pair create instruction, determines whether the volume size of the secondary volume obtained as a search result is greater than the volume size of the primary volume and, if the volume size of the secondary volume is greater than the volume size of the primary volume, sets the volume size of the secondary volume as the same size as the volume size of the primary volume without changing the substantial volume size of the secondary volume, and notifies the host of information on the set volume size of the secondary volume and information indicating that a pair has been created.

    摘要翻译: 可以缩短处理时间的备份系统和备份方法,而不会增加系统管理员在两阶段备份中的开销和负担。 在执行两级备份的备份系统中,存储装置根据对创建指令搜索可以与主卷配对的辅助卷,确定作为搜索获得的辅助卷的卷大小 结果大于主卷的卷大小,如果辅助卷的卷大小大于主卷的卷大小,则将辅助卷的卷大小设置为与卷的卷大小相同的大小 主卷,而不改变副卷的实质卷大小,并且向主机通知关于辅卷的设置卷大小的信息和指示已经创建对的信息。

    Storage apparatus and control method thereof
    9.
    发明授权
    Storage apparatus and control method thereof 有权
    储存装置及其控制方法

    公开(公告)号:US08484426B2

    公开(公告)日:2013-07-09

    申请号:US12920249

    申请日:2010-08-11

    IPC分类号: G06F12/00

    摘要: Improvement of read/write access performance with respect to a disk is proposed. A controller manages a first volume format LDEV, in which each distributed user data area and each distributed information area among a plurality of the distributed user data areas for storing a data part and a plurality of the distributed control information area for storing a control information part, are targets that capacity is changed. The controller also manages a second format LDEV, which include a plurality of groups each of which is formed from one distributed user data area and one distributed control information area, and in which each group is a unit that capacity is expanded in a real storage area. The controller converts a data address of the data part belonging to the first volume format LDEV into a data address of a data part of the second volume format LDEV in order to execute input/output processing with respect to the data part, when received an request for access to the data part belonging to the first volume format LDEV.

    摘要翻译: 提出了相对于磁盘读/写访问性能的改进。 控制器管理第一卷格式LDEV,其中在用于存储数据部分的多个分布式用户数据区域中的每个分布式用户数据区域和每个分布式信息区域以及用于存储控制信息部分的多个分布式控制信息区域 ,是能力改变的目标。 控制器还管理第二格式LDEV,其包括多个组,每个组由一个分布式用户数据区和一个分布式控制信息区形成,并且其中每个组是容量在真实存储区中扩展的单元 。 控制器将属于第一卷格式LDEV的数据部分的数据地址转换为第二卷格式LDEV的数据部分的数据地址,以便在接收到请求时对数据部分执行输入/输出处理 用于访问属于第一卷格式LDEV的数据部分。