115 results about "Storage resource management" patented technology

It is provided a resource management server comprising: a resource management module for managing virtual machines and use amounts of resources used by the virtual machines for deployment; a pool management module for managing a total amount of the resources and a total amount of available resources; a requirement specification reception module for receiving an allocation requirement for a new virtual machine along with requirement specifications including amounts of resources; and a search module for searching the virtual machines for deployment included in the resource management information for virtual machines for deployment having amounts of resources that satisfy the requirement specifications, and for virtual machines for deployment which do not have the amounts of resources that satisfy the requirement specifications but which allow the amounts of resources that satisfy the requirement specifications to be secured by adding the available resources included in the pool management information.

A system and method for storage resource management that improves the efficiency of big data cloud storage management using copy-on-write / read snapshots to redirect the I / O requests without moving the virtual disk is disclosed herein. The system includes storage pools, a virtualized server, and a centralized data center management server. The virtualized server includes a base disk and a virtualized disk having a copy-on-write and a copy-on-read snapshot process responsive to an I / O request that merges a previous snapshot stored on a first one of the plurality storage pools with the base disk stored on a second one of the plurality of storage pools, while it fetches a new snapshot to be stored on a third one of the plurality of storage pools from the previous snapshot or the base virtual disk. The system includes a performance model, employing an exponentially weighted moving average with an adjustable sliding window.

A system is provided for managing data sets in a cloud processing and / or federated environment. In an embodiment, the system described herein may be used in connection with cloud processing of big data sets. The term “big data,” as used herein, may be generally defined to describe data sets so large and complex that they become difficult to work with using on-hand database management tools. The system described herein enables the persistent storage of semantic technology statements for big data sets for processing in a cloud processing and / or federated environment.

The invention discloses a cloud computing system and a cloud computing resource management method. The cloud computing system comprises at least one cloud computing subsystem; the cloud computing subsystem comprises a physical machine, physical storage equipment and a storage resource management module; at least one virtual machine for bearing application is configured in the physical machine, and each virtual machine utilizes virtual storage resources in the physical storage equipment; a plurality of virtual storage resources corresponding to the virtual machines are configured in the physical storage equipment, and all the virtual storage resources are logically independent of one another; and the storage resource management module comprises a storage resource allocation unit used for allocating corresponding virtual storage resources from the physical storage equipment to the virtual machines according to the requirements of the virtual machines. By adopting the above scheme, not every physical machine has to be equipped with high-reliability storage equipment while the data reliability is guaranteed, so that not only is the system implementation cost lowered, but also the circulation of resources in the system is facilitated, and accordingly, the requirements of the cloud computing system are better conformed.

A method for improving metadata service reliability and a relative system belongs to computer memory technical field, for fully utilizing node resource to improve the reliability of metadata service. The inventive method comprises normal operation, main metadata server accident, backup metadata server lift, sub metadata server accident and second backup metadata server lift. The inventive system comprises a client node, a memory node, a main metadata server and a sub metadata server, which respectively comprises an object metadata service module, a memory resource manage module, and a high available module, wherein the high available module comprises a metadata copy module, an accident shield module, a detect module and a select module, the select module can select the memory node with minimum load as the backup metadata server, and the accident shield server is switched to next metadata server, and selects the backup metadata server to form a master-salve backup chain service mode, to improve the reliability of metadata service.

The invention relates to an asset life information integrated control method and a device suitable for a power system. The method comprises the following steps: an asset strategy auxiliary decision module is used for controlling a power grid planning module according to life cycle cost evaluation results of the existing equipment to select a corresponding planning scheme from a database server and sending the life cycle cost evaluation results to a project control module. The asset life information integrated control device suitable for the power system comprises the database server, a PSP (Python Server Pagers) application server, a BW (Band Width) application server, a BPS (Basic Programming System) application server, an SRM (Storage Resource Management) application server, a PMS (Purchase Management System) application server, a WRP (Wireless Routing Protocol) application server, an internal client, an external client, an internal bus and an Internet. Compared with the prior art, the asset life information integrated control method and the device suitable for the power system have the advantages of forming the evaluation decision of closed-loop linkage, optimizing the life cycle cost of the equipment and the like.

A management method of large scale storage resource includes maintaining a set of storage resouce disposal information by node machine of special processor to manage different storage device resource in storage network so as to provide virtual storage service for front end host by carrying out process of command analysis with interface middle layer of small computer interface. The node machine with information list and software target machine can convert virtual access to be access of physical device.

According to an embodiment of the invention, a filer or other storage server is coupled to a network to store files for users of the network. Agents are coupled to the filer, and performs a scan or file walk for a Multi-Appliance Management Application (MMA) which is coupled to the filer and can monitor and manage the filer. A directory structure of the filer may be divided into two or more paths, each of which may be scanned by an independent agent. The results of the scan, or file walk, are saved to a database server. In this way, multiple agents may be used to scan a single storage server, and the amount of time required for the scan is reduced.

The present invention provides a Kubernetes-based method and system for automatic allocation and creation of application storage. By using a storage size and type information required by an application, various deployed distributed storage systems are screened; by using a monitoring scoring system, a pressure score of each distributed storage system that meets a requirement is calculated; a distributed storage system with a smallest pressure is selected; a Kubernetes PVC configuration file is generated; the PVC is deployed and a PV is dynamically created, and the PV is bound with the PVC; and finally an application configuration file is generated, and the PVC is designated as a Volume source, and the application is deployed, so that an applied storage resource is automatically mounted to the application. The method and system provided by the present invention are used to improve a storage resource management function of Kubernetes, and solve the problem that the application on a Kubernetes cluster is automatically mounted with persistent storage, and make creation of application storage more convenient and efficient.

A controller in local site can process a request for storage resources from requestors like host computers, backup servers and tier manager. The controller checks own resource information including information about storage resources in the local site, according to requirements based on the request. The controller also asks other controllers in remote sites to check storage resources in each remote site. The controller in the local site collects the answers about available storage resources (including resources in the local site) under the requirements and selects storage resources to be used. Then the controller in the local site notifies the selected storage resources to the requester. Release of storage resource can also be performed with communication between controllers. Computers and backup servers can utilize these functions provided by the controllers to obtain and release the storage resources.

A general method for dynamically managing stored resources under window platform characterizes in using a kernel module to realize dynamic distribution and usage stored resources based on windows NT operation system reel management device and utilizing communication software under a customer mode to connect with the global resource stored management server which dispatches and assigns the stored resources among different applied servers. Apart from supporting the stored resource dispatch method corresponding to the server, the kernel module provides and images the operation of virtual stored device provided by it to a physical store device, besides, it shields other components of windows NT operation system to access its controlled physical devices.

The invention provides a system and method for integrated, optimized data storage infrastructure performance in a distributed computing environment using a storage resource management application. The invention may include a storage resource management application that receives and stores data regarding one or more infrastructure components of a distributed computing environment. A request related to performance of a data storage infrastructure of the distributed computing environment, may then be received. A request type may then be identified from one or more predefined request types. Examples of request types may include new asset addition requests, data storage provisioning requests, performance review requests, reporting requests, backup / recovery requests, and / or other requests. One or more infrastructure components, management agents, and / or service level agreements are then identified and associated with the request.

Apparatus is disclosed for managing the use of storage devices on a network of computing devices, the network comprising a plurality of computing devices each running different operating systems, at least one data storage device, and a management system for controlling archival of data from the computing devices to the data storage device, the management system including a database of data previously archived; the apparatus comprising an agent running on a first computing device attached to the network, the first computing device running a first operating system, the agent being adapted to issue an instruction to a second computing device being one of the plurality of computing devices via a remote administration protocol, the second computing device running a second operating system that differs from the first operating system, and the instruction comprising a query to the database concerning data archived from computing devices running the second operating system. The remote administration protocol is preferably Secure Shell (SSH), but other protocols can be employed. A corresponding method and software agent are also disclosed. In addition, a data storage resource management system is disclosed, comprising a query agent and an analysis agent, the query agent being adapted to issue at least one query to a database of backed up or archived objects in order to elicit information relating to the objects; the analysis agent being adapted to organise the query results and display totals of objects meeting defined criteria.

The invention discloses a double-control double-active storage control system and a method. The double-control double-active storage control system comprises two storage controllers and further comprises a magnetic disk cabinet which is connected with the two storage controllers, wherein each storage controller comprises a storage resource management module and a cache module. The storage controllers receive requests of an application server, and flash corresponding caching data in the cache modules to the magnetic disk cabinet with a magnetic disk array stripe as a unit, or read data in the magnetic disk cabinet to the cache modules with the stripe as the unit. Occupied magnetic disk cabinet resources are released after completion of flashing or reading. According to the double-control double-active storage control system and the method, due to the fact that the storage resource management granularity is refined, simultaneous reading and writing of the two controllers are achieved from a macroscopic view. Transmission buses and computing resources are fully utilized, and the storage performance is improved. Furthermore, due to the fact that a novel storage resource management mode is adopted, the use ratio of bus resources of the double controllers and the computing resources is improved, the storage performance and volume are improved, and the switching time of storage system breakdown is lowered.

The invention provides a method and a device for accessing storage resources in a storage system, which relate to the storage field and are invented to solve the problem of the prior art that some users cannot access the storage system in the access way of single protocol type. The method comprises the following steps that: all protocol types used when the storage resources are accessed in the storage system are obtained; an analysis module for analyzing all the protocol types is configured; and when a user initiates a request of accessing the storage resources in the storage system, the analysis module is used to analyze the protocol types used by the user, so as to provide the storage resources for the user. The technical scheme provided by the invention can be applied to the field of storage resource management.

The present invention provides a network server system centering on data, comprising an interconnection exchange network, a computing resource, a storage resource, a data resource and a management server. The interconnection exchange network is connected respectively with the computing resource, the storage resource, the data resource and the management server, wherein, the management server comprises a data management module for managing the data resource, a computing resource management module for managing the computing resource, a storage resource management module for managing the storage resource, as well as a computing environment management module for managing the computing environment of the network server system. The present invention improves the usability of the network server system and the data resource, allows data to have instantaneity through the unified management on the computing resource, the storage resource and the data resource, and reduces data processing time, so as to greatly improve the utilization ratio of the computing resource and the storage resource.

Performance of a computing system is improved by avoiding and / or eliminating overload conditions in storage systems. Performance utilization calculations are used to predict that a candidate placement configuration of storage resources within the storage systems will avoid overload conditions. The performance utilization calculations use performance profiles in conjunction with workload profiles to account for both storage system performance and actual workload traffic. Performance utilization calculations can also be used to report storage controller utilization information.

A distributed storage system of traffic information comprises management server of stored resource, data storage server, meta-data management server of stored resource, data storage server, meta-data management server, transmission management server, copy management server, information monitoring server, history analysis and policy expansion server, virtual file view terminal and relevant interactive units. Its storing method is also disclosed.

The invention discloses an electric power enterprise storage resource management system comprising a cloud resource management platform, a storage management module and a storage pool. The storage management module provides a unified storage pool management interface based on a WebService protocol to the cloud resource management platform, and a presentation layer provides page integration, single sign-on and WebService data access. A data processing layer completes data acquisition and strategy alarm. An adapter communicates with storage equipment. Virtualization equipment downwardly manages mid-to-high end storage arrays connected through an optical fiber network and upwardly provides a storage virtualization pool. The virtualization equipment provides an SMI-S interface to be connected with the storage management module. A distributed storage system downwardly manages a storage service cluster and upwardly provides a distributed storage poor. The distributed storage system provides an API interface to be connected with the storage management module.

The invention discloses a storage resource management method and device. The method includes the first step of carrying out virtualization on each physical hard disk to generate at least two virtual hard disks corresponding to each physical hard disk, the second step of carrying out combination on at least one virtual hard disk corresponding to each physical hard disk to generate at least two RAID logical units, and the third step of connecting the RAID logical units to a pre-allocated storage area network. Through the method, the virtual hard disks are combined into an RAID, and the combined RAID is connected to the storage area network, so the combined whole RAID will not fail any longer because of local faults of some physical hard disk, and the rank limitation of the RAID is avoided to some extent. In addition, parallelization processing can be carried out on data reconstruction of the RAID through multiple virtual hot standby hard disks, and accordingly the data reconstruction work efficiency is effectively improved.

The invention provides a data processing method and a storage management system. The data processing method comprises the steps of receiving a writing data request message by a first storage gateway client, wherein information carried by the writing data request message comprises first data, first position information and first identifier information of a first storage system; by a first storage gateway client, writing a first writing log into a first log file indicated by the first file path information, wherein the first writing log comprises the first data and the first position information, the first log file is stored in a second storage system, and the second storage system and the first storage system are different. The data processing method and the storage management system, provided by the invention, can improve the adaptability of the storage management system and can improve the reusability of the storage system.

A storage management system is disclosed for managing storage of electronic files in a plurality of storage devices connected during use to the storage management system. The system comprises a storage server connectable to a plurality of storage devices and communicable with at least one client device through a network. Each storage device has storage device attributes indicative of characteristics of the storage device, and the storage server is arranged to export a virtual file structure indicative of the connected storage devices to the at least one client. During storage of a file the storage management system is arranged to compare desired storage requirements for the file with the storage device attributes of storage devices connected during use to the storage server, and to select a storage device for the file based on the comparison. When at least one smart storage device is connected to the storage server, the storage management system is arranged to cascade the desired storage requirements to the or each smart storage device.

A resource management system in a data center one or more data storage resource providers and a transaction server. The transaction server is configured to receive, from a client, a request for read and / or write access for a data storage resource, the request comprising one or more specifications, to provide, to the one or more data storage resource providers, at least a portion of the request, and to receive, from the one or more data storage resource providers, respective responses to the request, the responses respectively comprising one or more allocation options. The transaction server is further configured to select one of the one or more allocation options for registration, and register the selected allocation option with a data manager. At least one of the one or more data storage providers is configured to provide the data storage resource in accordance with the registered allocation option.

The invention discloses a uniform resource management system for an operation analysis system. The uniform resource management system comprises a resource management center, a resource allocating receptacle and a memory, wherein the resource management center comprises an allocation unit which is used for receiving lookup requirement of a user, sending the lookup requirement of the user to a resource allocating receptacle to carry out lookup, and receiving a lookup result of the resource allocating receptacle and feeding the lookup result to the user; the resource allocating receptacle is used for acquiring marks of resource in a memory and attribute information thereof, receiving the lookup requirement of the resource management center, and looking up resource according to resource functional marks carried by the lookup requirement; and the memory is used for storing the resource with the functional marks and the attribute thereof preliminarily arranged by the resource management center. The invention also provides a resource lookup method. The method manages all resources uniformly, so that a user can manage the required data according to business planning, and the resource is converted to transverse distribution according to business from longitudinal distribution of functions. Therefore, the method is convenient for the user to look up and utilize the resource.

The invention relates to a low-energy-consumption remote storage system and a design method thereof, in particular to a method of remote data storage by utilizing network communication, and a storage system, and belongs to the technical field of network communication and data storage. The remote storage system comprises a remote storage device and a remote access device, and has normal and standby work modes. The remote storage device comprises a storer, a storage resource manager, a normal access control and security management module, a standby access control and security management module, a normal remote communication module, a standby remote communication module and a standby management module, and the remote access device comprises a user interface, a remote storage resource manager, an access control and security module, and a remote communication module. In the period that the storer does not carry out an access operation, the storage device is in a low-power-consumption or power-off state, the energy consumption is effectively reduced; the end-to-end encryption can be performed, and the basic guarantee of the security of data resources of the user is provided.

The invention discloses a user-oriented dynamic storage resource distribution method. The method can dynamically increase a storage pool, and meanwhile can supply a storage space with size as a user required to a client. The method comprises that: (1) a storage resource agent sends physical volume set information to a storage resource manager; (2) the storage resource manager updates an information link list of the storage resource agent, and periodically detects the heartbeat of the storage resource agent; (3) a client agent sends physical volume application information or physical volume release information to a storage resource server according to the demand of the user; and (4) the storage resource manager receives the information of the client agent: a, if the information is the physical volume application information, the storage resource manager automatically distributes a physical volume to the client agent, and the client agent automatically establishes ISCSI connection to the distributed physical volume to acquire storage resources; and b, if the information is the physical volume release information, the storage resource manager reclaims the physical volume. The method has the advantages that the storage resource manager can automatically distribute or reclaim the storage resources for the client agent as the user required, and intervention of an administrator is not needed.

The invention provides a feature processing method for block-level data in a hierarchical storage system. The method includes: setting a hierarchical storage system architecture comprising a data feature collector, a storage resource manager, a strategy configuration manger and a migration manager; allowing the storage resource manager to integrate storage resources to form a storage resource pool capable of hierarchical storage, and mapping the storage resources into a logical volume to use in an upper-level file system; allowing the data feature collector to be responsible for monitoring upper-level transmitted I / O requests, counting reference frequency features for a certain data block, analyzing by a data feature analysis method, and informing the migration manager of analysis results to allow for subsequent hierarchical management. Compared to the prior art, the feature processing method for block-level data in the hierarchical storage system allows hot spot data to be discovered and judged during the process of hierarchical data storage and management and allows the hot spot data to be judged more accurately.

Methods and systems for storage management in a data processing device. The data processing device may be connected to a host computer and it can be in one of two states: disk mode (e.g., docked) or device mode (e.g., undocked). According to an embodiment, a mass storage device associated with a data processing device is divided into two or more segments or virtual volumes, and at least one volume is managed by the device even in a disk mode. In some cases, this makes the device usable while in the docked state and hence it improves the user experience. In some embodiments, an extra software component other than the file system is employed on the device to manage the storage device. Certain volumes may be dynamically increased or decreased while the data processing device is in a disk mode.

The invention discloses a zero restart-data loss method and device, wherein the method comprises the following steps: a reserved memory which is special for storing a storage resource mapping table is pre-assigned; before a system is restarted, the logic storage resource management unit assigns logic storage resources to a data source unit, and when the data source unit writes data into the logic storage resources, the logic storage resource management unit records the physical locations of the logic storage resources (into which the data is written) in the storage resource mapping table; when the system is restarted, the logic storage resource management unit acquires the physical locations of the logic storage resources (into which the data is written) from the storage resource mapping table, and sets physical memory blocks corresponding to the logic storage resources (into which the data is written) as a used state; and after the data source unit reads all data, the logic storage resource management unit releases all the logic storage resources. By using the method and unit disclosed by the invention, the utilization ratio of storage resources is improved.