SAN stored resource unified management and distribution method

Abstract

The invention provides an SAN stored resource unified management and distribution method; a system comprises a server agent, a storage server agent and a management server, wherein an application server is provided with an application server agent, and the application server agent comprises a host information collection module, a starter management module and a disk management module, and the modules are used for realizing host information collection and registering in a resource management server; a target CHAP is authenticated and connected; a logical volume is automatically formatted into a specified file system on demand; resource use information is stored and collected, so as to realize the global view of the SAN environment resource use information; the distribution of the application server to storage server resources is realized on the same management server, and the division of logical partitions of the application server and the formatting of the file system are completed; the connection between the starter and the target between the application server and the storage server is established and the CHAP authentication is configured; and a page displays the use information of the resources of each application server and the utilization status of the resources of each storage server, so as to prevent resource idle and realize the balanced load between the storage servers.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of storage resource management and allocation, in particular to a method and system for unified management and allocation of SAN storage resources. Background technique [0002] In a SAN environment, storage resources are distributed and heterogeneous. With the continuous increase of data, the demand for storage capacity continues to increase, and the number of storage servers in the network also increases; the number of application servers has increased from a few to hundreds, or even more, and various Operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Unix, etc. They run different key businesses and may be managed by multiple divisions. [0003] At present, the management and allocation of storage resources is completely dependent on the manual implementation of the system administrator, which has high management costs and low efficiency; when large-scale configuration is required, it is easy to introduce manual errors,...

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Problems solved by technology

[0005] 1. The management interface of storage products on the market can basically only provide local storage resource management, and the ability to realize unified management of heterogeneous storage servers or the same series of products is relatively low;

[0006] 2. The single connection between the application server and the storage array makes the resource utilization rate and usage status information distributed in each client, which cannot be aggregated to form a unified view and presented to the user as a decision-making use; the overall storage resources in the SAN environment are even more lack of a unified view;

In order to realize the resource allocation of each application server, it is necessary to manually implement the division of logical partitions on the storage server, and remember which server this resource needs to be allocated to; then log in to the application server and use the initiator to connect to the target on the storage server ;On the basis of a successful connection, use volume management tools to partition and format the file system, which is very inefficient, requires more management personnel, and requires high management costs

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