Patents by Inventor Atsumi Terayama

Atsumi Terayama has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11556383
    Abstract: To more properly size resources in a destination to which IT resources will be migrated, a system for appraising a resource configuration estimates a source's load model representing a load of first resources in a first computer system which is the source of migration and estimates a destination's load model representing a load of second resources to be built by migrating the first resources to a second computer system based on the source's load model. The system compares performance requirements of the first resources against the destination's load model and finds the destination's load model that is conformable to the performance requirements. When determining design values of the second resources' configuration, the system corrects those design values based on the destination's load model estimated conformable to the performance requirements to decrease design margins of the resource configuration using a design correction value defined to meet a service level requested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventor: Atsumi Terayama
  • Publication number: 20220066823
    Abstract: To more properly size resources in a destination to which IT resources will be migrated, a system for appraising a resource configuration estimates a source's load model representing a load of first resources in a first computer system which is the source of migration and estimates a destination's load model representing a load of second resources to be built by migrating the first resources to a second computer system based on the source's load model. The system compares performance requirements of the first resources against the destination's load model and finds the destination's load model that is conformable to the performance requirements. When determining design values of the second resources' configuration, the system corrects those design values based on the destination's load model estimated conformable to the performance requirements to decrease design margins of the resource configuration using a design correction value defined to meet a service level requested.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Atsumi Terayama
  • Patent number: 10986006
    Abstract: A performance analysis method of a computer system using a management computer. The management computer includes: a processor; and a memory device in which a program to be executed by the processor is stored. The computer system is constituted by a plurality of resources. The processor divides the plurality of resources into a plurality of resource groups based on a correlation of changes in performance data between the resources, and analyzes the performance data for each of the divided resource groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsumi Terayama, Shinichi Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20210065082
    Abstract: A system includes a first processing unit that executes a first planning algorithm to evaluate a migration destination resource based on a difference between performance of a migration target resource and reference performance and output a first solution as a migration destination resource state string that indicates a configuration and performance of the migration destination resource that is evaluated as a migration destination, a second processing unit that executes a second planning algorithm to output a second solution according to a mathematical programming method as the migration destination resource state string for the evaluated migration destination resource and uses the first solution to correct the second solution, and a third processing unit that outputs, between the first solution satisfying a time limit and the corrected second solution, a solution in which quality of the resource configuration change plan is estimated and an evaluation value of the plan meets a condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Atsumi TERAYAMA, Shinichi HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20190334795
    Abstract: A performance analysis method of a computer system using a management computer. The management computer includes: a processor; and a memory device in which a program to be executed by the processor is stored. The computer system is constituted by a plurality of resources. The processor divides the plurality of resources into a plurality of resource groups based on a correlation of changes in performance data between the resources, and analyzes the performance data for each of the divided resource groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsumi TERAYAMA, Shinichi HAYASHI
  • Patent number: 10459768
    Abstract: The management system according to the present invention, which manages a plurality of computers, manages instances that are implemented using allocated from the plurality of computers, and selects, from among a plurality of different instance implementation methods, an instance implementation method that matches instance configuration information, which is information including settings for configuring an instance and which includes particular settings, each indicating whether the instance needs to monopolize a physical resource, said selection being based the instance configuration information. The plurality of computers provide physical resources to the instance on the basis of the selected instance implementation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsumi Terayama, Toru Tanaka, Keisuke Hatasaki
  • Patent number: 10067695
    Abstract: A management server acquires storage and application information from a first system to store the information. The storage information includes storage area correspondence information indicating a correspondence between a storage area and a processor. The application information includes application correspondence information indicating a correspondence between the processor and an application, and application configuration information indicating a past Input/Output (IO) load on the storage area. The management server estimates an IO load on the storage area by the application based on the storage and application information to obtain an estimated value, and determines whether or not a copy processable period, a period in which a copy process of data can be performed is present, based on the data size and the estimated value. When the copy processable period is present, the management server transmits a copy indication including a start time of the copy processable period to a copy processing server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Suzuki, Toru Tanaka, Keisuke Hatasaki, Toshio Otani, Atsumi Terayama
  • Publication number: 20170351553
    Abstract: The management system according to the present invention, which manages a plurality of computers, manages instances that are implemented using allocated from the plurality of computers, and selects, from among a plurality of different instance implementation methods, an instance implementation method that matches instance configuration information, which is information including settings for configuring an instance and which includes particular settings, each indicating whether the instance needs to monopolize a physical resource, said selection being based the instance configuration information. The plurality of computers provide physical resources to the instance on the basis of the selected instance implementation method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsumi TERAYAMA, Toru TANAKA, Keisuke HATASAKI
  • Patent number: 9654560
    Abstract: A management system receives a first process request for a first application program (APP), and specifies a second APP that is related to the first APP as a target APP of the first process request and is in an APP environment different from an APP environment of the first APP. The management system generates a second process request for executing, on the second APP, a process that is the same as a process according to the first process request, based on the first process request and on conversion information indicating a relationship between a process request before a conversion and a process request after the conversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Toru Tanaka, Atsumi Terayama
  • Patent number: 9575798
    Abstract: A non-virtual server and a virtual server make up the same tenant in an environment, in which virtual servers created by dividing a single physical server into a plurality of computer environments coexist with a non-virtual server that directly uses a single physical server as a computer environment without using server virtualization. A management computer is provided with virtual switch management information that shows a correlation between the virtual servers and an internal network to which a relevant virtual server connects, and physical switch management information that shows a correlation between the non-virtual server and an internal network to which the non-virtual server connects. The management computer creates a virtual server that belongs to the same tenant as a physical instance, identifies a first internal network to which the non-virtual server connects, and configures the tenant so that the relevant virtual server is connected to the first internal network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsumi Terayama, Toshio Otani, Akihisa Nagami
  • Publication number: 20160357464
    Abstract: A management server acquires storage and application information from a first system to store the information. The storage information includes storage area correspondence information indicating a correspondence between a storage area and a processor. The application information includes application correspondence information indicating a correspondence between the processor and an application, and application configuration information indicating a past Input/Output (IO) load on the storage area. The management server estimates an IO load on the storage area by the application based on the storage and application information to obtain an estimated value, and determines whether or not a copy processable period, a period in which a copy process of data can be performed is present, based on the data size and the estimated value. When the copy processable period is present, the management server transmits a copy indication including a start time of the copy processable period to a copy processing server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2014
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Takayuki SUZUKI, Toru TANAKA, Keisuke HATASAKI, Toshio OTANI, Atsumi TERAYAMA
  • Patent number: 9495195
    Abstract: The integrated resource management unit 202 manages some of the resources 311a, 311b, 311c and prepares a plurality of containers 310 provided as virtual resources, with respect to the application programs. In response to a predetermined request that is issued with respect to a tenant 300a or 300b that is configured to divide a resource to be used, the integrated resource management unit provides a request-source tenant with a container selected from among the plurality of containers. In the container that is provided to the request-source tenant by the integrated resource management unit, a resource, which is allocated beforehand to an application program designated by the predetermined request, is occasionally configured to have usage lower than a designated usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsumi Terayama, Toru Tanaka, Toshio Otani
  • Patent number: 9444704
    Abstract: In a cloud environment that provides both virtual environment and non-virtual environment, in order to address a problem in that monitoring items that vary depending on usage cases must be managed, the present invention proposes a management method in which whether each server brings about a virtual environment or a non-virtual environment is managed by performing registration processing in cooperation with image management and a service resource registration task. In addition, user manager monitoring profile item management information for virtual/no-virtual environment is prepared, and with reference to this information, calculation methods, which specify monitoring items to be monitored out of monitoring items and infra monitoring items for each environment, are managed. With the use of these calculation methods, a user manager and an infrastructure manager may perform optimal monitorings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriko Nakajima, Akihisa Nagami, Toshio Otani, Atsumi Terayama
  • Patent number: 9432256
    Abstract: In a cloud environment where multiple applications having different performance characteristics are operated in a mixture, in order to specify the cause of performance deterioration and to solve the confliction of requests related to a shared resource, the present invention detects the performance deterioration of resources allocated to multiple instances constituting a logical server configuration, and extracts an instance sharing resources existing performance deterioration, and compares a performance tendency of the extracted instance and a performance pattern showing a characteristics extracted from a performance information of the resource in association with a bottleneck factor, to thereby estimate the bottleneck factor by calculating mutual similarities and determining a performance pattern where the calculated similarity becomes maximum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsumi Terayama, Toshio Otani
  • Publication number: 20160248882
    Abstract: A management system receives a first process request for a first application program (APP), and specifies a second APP that is related to the first APP as a target APP of the first process request and is in an APP environment different from an APP environment of the first APP. The management system generates a second process request for executing, on the second APP, a process that is the same as a process according to the first process request, based on the first process request and on conversion information indicating a relationship between a process request before a conversion and a process request after the conversion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Toru TANAKA, Atsumi TERAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160072687
    Abstract: In a cloud environment that provides both virtual environment and non-virtual environment, in order to address a problem in that monitoring items that vary depending on usage cases must be managed, the present invention proposes a management method in which whether each server brings about a virtual environment or a non-virtual environment is managed by performing registration processing in cooperation with image management and a service resource registration task. In addition, user manager monitoring profile item management information for virtual/no-virtual environment is prepared, and with reference to this information, calculation methods, which specify monitoring items to be monitored out of monitoring items and infra monitoring items for each environment, are managed. With the use of these calculation methods, a user manager and an infrastructure manager may perform optimal monitorings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Noriko NAKAJIMA, Akihisa NAGAMI, Toshio OTANI, Atsumi TERAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20160034289
    Abstract: A computer system including a peripheral equipment and a blade server provided with a plurality of blades, which are physical machines, and a plurality of virtual machines available on the blades, a same OS identifier is allocated, before and after the migration, to an OS that migrates along with migration of the virtual machine, migrates among the plurality of virtual machines or migrates between the virtual machine and the blade, and log of the blades and/or the virtual machines, and log of the peripheral equipment are stored in association with the OS identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashl AMANO, Atsumi TERAYAMA, Toru TANAKA
  • Publication number: 20160004551
    Abstract: The integrated resource management unit 202 manages some of the resources 311a, 311b, 311c and prepares a plurality of containers 310 provided as virtual resources, with respect to the application programs. In response to a predetermined request that is issued with respect to a tenant 300a or 300b that is configured to divide a resource to be used, the integrated resource management unit provides a request-source tenant with a container selected from among the plurality of containers. In the container that is provided to the request-source tenant by the integrated resource management unit, a resource, which is allocated beforehand to an application program designated by the predetermined request, is occasionally configured to have usage lower than a designated usage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Atsumi TERAYAMA, Toru TANAKA, Toshio OTANI
  • Patent number: 9223501
    Abstract: When migrating a virtual server between a plurality of physical servers, a pre-migration connection relationship between the virtual server and a storage area used by the virtual server is maintained after the migration of the virtual server by using a cooperative mechanism between a plurality of storage apparatuses even if the storage area used by the virtual server is migrated between the plurality of storage apparatuses. A computer system and virtual server migration control method for the computer system is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsumi Terayama, Akihisa Nagami, Toru Tanaka, Yasunori Kaneda, Yoshinori Okami
  • Publication number: 20150363221
    Abstract: A non-virtual server and a virtual server make up the same tenant in an environment, in which virtual servers created by dividing a single physical server into a plurality of computer environments coexist with a non-virtual server that directly uses a single physical server as a computer environment without using server virtualization. A management computer is provided with virtual switch management information that shows a correlation between the virtual servers and an internal network to which a relevant virtual server connects, and physical switch management information that shows a correlation between the non-virtual server and an internal network to which the non-virtual server connects. The management computer creates a virtual server that belongs to the same tenant as a physical instance, identifies a first internal network to which the non-virtual server connects, and configures the tenant so that the relevant virtual server is connected to the first internal network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: Hitachi Ltd.
    Inventors: Atsumi TERAYAMA, Toshio OTANI, Akihisa NAGAMI