Abstract: An image reading apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a casing, a reading unit, a support shaft, a first cable, and a second cable. The reading unit includes a reading sensor configured to read an image of the sheet conveyed in the conveyance path through the transparent member. The support shaft supports the reading unit in a manner of moving in a moving direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the reading unit. The first cable is connected to a first connecting portion disposed in the reading unit, the first cable being held by the reading unit on one side in the longitudinal direction with respect to the support shaft. The second cable is connected to a second connecting portion disposed in the reading unit, the second cable being held by the reading unit on the other side in the longitudinal direction with respect to the support shaft.

Abstract: There are provided a controller apparatus and a control method thereof. The controller apparatus is held by a hand of a user and includes a microphone, a tactile sensation presentation device that presents a tactile sensation to the hand of the user, and a speaker. In addition, during a period in which the user inputs sound from the microphone, the controller apparatus reduces emission of sound of the speaker and causes the tactile sensation presentation device to perform control of tactile sensation presentation.

Abstract: A management system includes an interface device coupled to a computer system including a plurality of resources including resources of a plurality of resource types and a processor coupled to the interface device. The processor allocates, to a tenant environment, a resource of a resource type, which is different depending on an XaaS (X as a Service), among the plurality of resources including resources of a plurality of resource types and provides a plurality of tenant environments including a plurality of XaaSs. The processor manages, as low-order resources, resources lower in order than the resources allocated to the tenant environments, among the plurality of resources including resources of a plurality of resource types. When receiving a resource change request, the processor executes change processing on at least one of the low-order resources among the resources managed as low-order resources.

Abstract: A management server includes: a memory; a communication interface coupled to a plurality of servers having a server processor and a non-volatile memory; and a management processor coupled to the memory and the communication interface. Data is written to the non-volatile memory by the server processor in accordance with startup of a program. The memory is configured to store a limit value of a cumulative write amount of the non-volatile memory. The management processor receives a cumulative write amount of the non-volatile memory from each of the plurality of servers and calculates, when a startup request for requesting startup of a first program is received, an evaluation value of the non-volatile memory in each server based on the limit value and the cumulative write amount, selects one startup server based on the evaluation values, and transmits an execution request for requesting startup of the first program to the startup server.

Abstract: In a management computer, a memory stores: association information indicating an association among a first physical computer, a virtual computer that is implemented by the first physical computer, a first physical resource that is allocated to the virtual computer, and a user who uses the virtual computer; failure information indicating a failed physical resource; and an upper limit value for a destruction amount as an amount of a physical resource that has failed by being used by the user. A processor calculates the destruction amount, and transmits, upon determining that the first physical resource has failed, that the destruction amount is equal to or less than the upper limit value, and that any of a plurality of physical computers includes the second physical resource, to the first physical computer an instruction to allocate a second physical resource as a replacement for the first physical resource to the virtual computer.

Abstract: A server storage system comprises a plurality of server resources and a plurality of storage resources. A management system stores allocation control information. The allocation control information represents correspondences among resource types and resource quantities of exclusively allocated server resources and storage resources, resource types and resource quantities of commonly allocated server resources and storage resources, and virtual server load characteristics which are characteristics of virtual server loads. The management system accepts a virtual server creation instruction which is associated with one or more types of load characteristic information which is inputted by a manager and which relates to virtual server load characteristics, and on the basis of the allocation control information and the one or more types of load characteristic information, selects the exclusively allocated server resources and storage resources.

Abstract: A management system includes an interface device coupled to a computer system including a plurality of resources including resources of a plurality of resource types and a processor coupled to the interface device. The processor allocates, to a tenant environment, a resource of a resource type, which is different depending on an XaaS (X as a Service), among the plurality of resources including resources of a plurality of resource types and provides a plurality of tenant environments including a plurality of XaaSs. The processor manages, as low-order resources, resources lower in order than the resources allocated to the tenant environments, among the plurality of resources including resources of a plurality of resource types. When receiving a resource change request, the processor executes change processing on at least one of the low-order resources among the resources managed as low-order resources.

Abstract: A management system manages a storage system and a server computer. The management system (A) acquires the storage level pool information that includes the information of a capacity of a storage level pool from the storage system, (B) acquires the server level pool information that includes the information of a capacity of a server level pool from the server computer, (C) determines a first risk degree that indicate a risk of a depletion of a free capacity of the storage level pool based on the storage level pool information, (D) determines a second risk degree that indicate a risk of a depletion of a free capacity of a server level pool based on the server level pool information, and (E) displays the information that is associated with the first risk degree that indicate a risk of a depletion of a free capacity of the storage level pool and the second risk degree that indicate a risk of a depletion of a free capacity of the server level pool.

Abstract: A management server includes: a memory; a communication interface coupled to a plurality of servers having a server processor and a non-volatile memory; and a management processor coupled to the memory and the communication interface. Data is written to the non-volatile memory by the server processor in accordance with startup of a program. The memory is configured to store a limit value of a cumulative write amount of the non-volatile memory. The management processor receives a cumulative write amount of the non-volatile memory from each of the plurality of servers and calculates, when a startup request for requesting startup of a first program is received, an evaluation value of the non-volatile memory in each server based on the limit value and the cumulative write amount, selects one startup server based on the evaluation values, and transmits an execution request for requesting startup of the first program to the startup server.

Abstract: A system redundancy verification method, which is to be executed in a computer system, the computer system comprising a first computer, a second computer, a storage system, and a management computer, the system redundancy verification method including: a step of obtaining, by the management computer, first hardware information on the first computer and second hardware information on the second computer; a step of obtaining, by the management computer, first storage area information on the storage area; a step of obtaining, by the second computer the second storage area information from the storage system, and a step of comparing, by the management computer, the first hardware information and the first storage area information with the second hardware information and the second storage area information, and determining whether a failover is implementable between the first computer and the second computer.

Abstract: In a management computer, a memory stores: association information indicating an association among a first physical computer, a virtual computer that is implemented by the first physical computer, a first physical resource that is allocated to the virtual computer, and a user who uses the virtual computer; failure information indicating a failed physical resource; and an upper limit value for a destruction amount as an amount of a physical resource that has failed by being used by the user. A processor calculates the destruction amount, and transmits, upon determining that the first physical resource has failed, that the destruction amount is equal to or less than the upper limit value, and that any of a plurality of physical computers includes the second physical resource, to the first physical computer an instruction to allocate a second physical resource as a replacement for the first physical resource to the virtual computer.

Abstract: A management system according to an example of the invention selects a standby combination candidate of an arrangement position candidate of a standby computer and an arrangement position candidate of a standby I/O adapter. The management system specifies a plurality of active combinations of an arrangement position of an active computer and an arrangement position of an active I/O adapter. The management system selects a switch method applicable between the standby combination candidate and each of the plurality of active combinations from a plurality of switch methods. The management system determines a priority of the selected switch method by referring to priority information associating each of the plurality of switch methods and the priority. The management system evaluates the standby combination candidate based on the determined priority of the selected switch method.

Abstract: In order to effectively use the resources on a network, there is provided a management server (200) for selecting each resource of a resource information table (211) as a test resource, if the extraction probability for each resource is equal to or greater than the random numbers probability generated by a random number generation part (221), forming a test server by combining the selected resources, performing the job by using the formed test server, and applying the test server as the server of the particular network if the execution result of the job meets the job determination method.

Abstract: A management server acquires software configuration information, hardware configuration information, and operation achievement information from each server system; generates server operation achievement information for managing operation achievements of each server system based on each acquired information; generates server operation achievement statistic information by aggregating the software configuration information about each server system based on the generated server operation achievement information; and, upon receipt of a software configuration decision request from a requestor server system, selects the software configuration information which matches a hardware configuration of the requestor server system, from the server operation achievement statistic information.

Abstract: The present invention is provided with: computers provided with a processor, a memory, and an I/O interface; an I/O switch for connecting a plurality of the computers with an I/O adapter; a management computer for managing the I/O switch and the computers; and a first network for connecting the computers with the management computer. The I/O switch has a dedicated adaptor connected to the management computer. The management computer selects from the plurality of computers a computer for performing data transfer, commands the I/O switch to connect the I/O interface of the selected computer and the dedicated adaptor, transfers data between the selected computer, senses that data transfer with the selected computer has been completed, and commands the I/O switch to disconnect the dedicated adaptor from the I/O interface of the selected computer after completion of the data transfer with the selected computer has been sensed.

Abstract: A management system according to an example of the invention selects a standby combination candidate of an arrangement position candidate of a standby computer and an arrangement position candidate of a standby I/O adapter. The management system specifies a plurality of active combinations of an arrangement position of an active computer and an arrangement position of an active I/O adapter. The management system selects a switch method applicable between the standby combination candidate and each of the plurality of active combinations from a plurality of switch methods. The management system determines a priority of the selected switch method by referring to priority information associating each of the plurality of switch methods and the priority. The management system evaluates the standby combination candidate based on the determined priority of the selected switch method.

Abstract: A management system manages a storage system and a server computer. The management system (A) acquires the storage level pool information that includes the information of a capacity of a storage level pool from the storage system, (B) acquires the server level pool information that includes the information of a capacity of a server level pool from the server computer, (C) determines a first risk degree that indicate a risk of a depletion of a free capacity of the storage level pool based on the storage level pool information, (D) determines a second risk degree that indicate a risk of a depletion of a free capacity of a server level pool based on the server level pool information, and (E) displays the information that is associated with the first risk degree that indicate a risk of a depletion of a free capacity of the storage level pool and the second risk degree that indicate a risk of a depletion of a free capacity of the server level pool.

Abstract: A system redundancy verification method, which is to be executed in a computer system, the computer system comprising a first computer, a second computer, a storage system, and a management computer, the system redundancy verification method including: a step of obtaining, by the management computer, first hardware information on the first computer and second hardware information on the second computer; a step of obtaining, by the management computer, first storage area information on the storage area; a step of obtaining, by the second computer the second storage area information from the storage system, and a step of comparing, by the management computer, the first hardware information and the first storage area information with the second hardware information and the second storage area information, and determining whether a failover is implementable between the first computer and the second computer.

Abstract: A method of managing a virtual computer in a computer system including a plurality of computers, each of the computer storing a program for realizing a virtualization management module for managing a virtual computer, including a management storage area that is accessible only by the virtualization management module, storing start-up management information representing a correspondence among identification information on the virtual computer, identification information on a logical storage area storing a service program, and start-up authentication information for starting the virtual computer. The method including: a step of referring to the start-up management information to determine whether the start-up authentication information corresponding to the virtual computer exists, in a case of receiving a start-up request; a step of reading the service program from the logical storage area and executing the read service program, in a case of being determined the start-up authentication information exists.

Abstract: A computer system includes an I/O switch connected to a computer and changing connections between the computer and I/O devices, and a management server for managing configuration of the I/O devices. The management server, with respect to existing I/O devices connected to the I/O switch, stores information representing logical configuration of the existing I/O devices recognized by an OS of the computer and information representing physical configuration of the existing I/O devices managed by the I/O switch in the memory, The management server, upon receipt of a notice indicating a change in the configuration of the existing I/O devices from the I/O switch, changes the physical configuration of the existing I/O devices after the change in the configuration to be matched with the logical configuration of the existing I/O devices and instructs the I/O switch to change the connections in accordance with the changed physical configuration.