<12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 8,010,836 B2 Fukui et al. (45) Date of Patent: Aug. 30, 2011 (54) STORAGE CONFIGURATION RECOVERY 7,549,080 Bl * 6/2009 Gardner ct al. ................. .. 714/6 METHOD AND STORAGE MANAGEMENT 7,640,451 B2 * l2/2009 Meyer et al. 7l4/4 2002/0l887ll Al * l2/2002 Meyer et al. 709/223 SYSTEM 2005/0268147 Al * l2/2005 Yamamoto et al. ............. .. 7l4/2 (75) Inventors: Yoshiki Fukui, Yokohama (JP); Takuya * IS<1;>_<E*11n_*1 t 1 707/202 ' . l OIl'll € 3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 0ka_m°t°’ Machlda UP)’ N°b“° 2006/0117212 Al * 6/2006 Meyer et 61. 714/4 Benlyanla, Yokohama >I< Kodama et al‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ " (73) Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo (JP) * Cited by examiner ( * ) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this patent is extended or adjusted under 35 Primary Examiner—Nadeem Iqbal U~S~C~ 154(1)) by 534 daY5~ (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm —Antonelli, Ten"y, Stout & (21) Appl. NO.Z 12/099,936 KYa“S> LLP (22) Filed: Apr. 9, 2008 (57) ABSTRACT (65) Prior Publication Data When failure occurs in a virtualization apparatus in storage Us 2009/0199041 A1 Aug‘ 6’ 2009 network circumstances in which the virtualization apparatus (30) Foreign Application Priority Data is operated, a storage management server judges volume position information, cache configuration infonnation and Ffib. 6, ............................... . . 1 pair Qgnfiguratjgn jnfgrmatjgn are Cgnfiguratjon jnfol-_ (51) Int CL mation’ of the virtualization apparatus and extemal storage G06F 1 1/00 (200601) collectiyd/ely ta ~((1£C1d€ iandidates of I'€hCOg/€I'§;\I(I11;3Il1OdS1?f vol52 U.S. Cl. ...................................................... .. 714/6.3 “me an “"1 1 ‘es ° re°°Ve“/ me‘ ° S ° ta 1“ ‘ e V° ‘ (58) Field of Classification Search ................ .. 714/2-9, ‘boa; 1.°O1;_;1(j/1(1yasIi:1a1aY1°:l‘C“;;‘a;jntihpirtfigfi 714/12,13,15,16,20,21,39,42,56 ‘Y P . . P See application file for complete search history Changed to the recovered physlcal pnmeiry \.]O1um.e' Conse' quently, change to the system configuration in which opera(56) References Cited tion is performed without passing through the viitualization
apparatus can be made in a short time and continuous operation can be attained.
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