Patents by Inventor Tsukasa Shibayama

Tsukasa Shibayama 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: 12135892
    Abstract: A processor of each node of a storage system executes rebalancing to transfer a volume between pool volumes for the node in such a way as to equalize throughput of a data input/output process and/or data capacities between the pool volumes making up the pool. When a plurality of external volumes are transferred to a node in the storage system, the storage management apparatus determines a transfer destination node for the volumes and order of transferring the volumes and executes volume transfer in such a way as to equalize throughput of the data input/output process and/or data capacities between the pool volumes making up the pool after completion of or during the volume transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanobu Suzuki, Tsukasa Shibayama, Akira Deguchi
  • Publication number: 20240361909
    Abstract: Provided is a computer system capable of maintaining a storage capacity allocated to a journal volume within an appropriate range during an application period of remote copy. A first storage system includes a primary volume and a primary journal volume, and a second storage system includes a secondary volume and a secondary journal volume. A management computer is configured to manage the remote copy in which a primary volume, a primary journal volume, a secondary journal volume, and a secondary volume are paired, and expand and/or release a capacity of the primary journal volume and/or the secondary journal volume according to operation information of a resource related to the remote copy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsukasa SHIBAYAMA, Akira DeGuchi
  • Patent number: 12079497
    Abstract: To quickly and appropriately adjust a performance of a storage system. A storage configuration optimization device for managing a storage system including one or more storages implemented by a plurality of SDS nodes includes a virtual CPU. The virtual CPU is configured to receive a request for an execution period and a necessary performance of a project using the storage system, and select, based on consumption information and performance information of a resource of the storage system, one or more change patterns satisfying the request for the execution period and the necessary performance from among a plurality of change patterns indicating configuration changes of the storage system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Miho Kobayashi, Akira Deguchi, Kazuki Togo, Tsukasa Shibayama, Takanobu Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20240256410
    Abstract: An information processing system includes storage apparatuses installed in areas, SDSs provided on a cloud, and a management system. The management system estimates, in reference to configuration information and performance information regarding a volume of each of the storage apparatuses, a required resource amount required to fail over the volume of each storage apparatus to a duplicate volume. The management system selects an SDS of a replication destination in such a manner as to minimize a required resource amount aggregated for each installation location and for each storage system SDS, while locating in a distributed manner, in the SDSs, duplicate volumes related to the storage apparatuses located at an identical point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenta SATO, Tsukasa SHIBAYAMA, Akira DEGUCHI
  • Patent number: 12019885
    Abstract: In an information processing system, a plurality of control units (control software) implemented in different storage nodes are managed as a redundancy group, one or more first logical units (SLUs) are associated with the redundancy group, and the plurality of control units included in the redundancy group include an active control unit that processes an input/output (IO) request with respect to the first logical unit, and a standby control unit that takes over the processing when the active control unit fails. A processor (configuration management unit) arranges at least one second logical unit (ALU) in the storage node in which the active control unit exists, and associates the second logical unit with the first logical unit controlled by the active control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Shibayama, Takanobu Suzuki, Akira Deguchi
  • Publication number: 20240192848
    Abstract: A management computer receives designation of an operation content and an operation target resource from a management user of a first type (managed or self). In a case where the operation target resource is a system resource managed by a management user of a second type (self or managed) and an operation according to the operation content for the operation target resource influences storage management by the management user of the second type, the management computer changes an authority of an operation regarding an influence for the management user of the second type to an authority not to influence an environment realized by construction including performing an operation according to the operation content for the operation target resource, and then performs the operation according to the operation content for the operation target resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsukasa SHIBAYAMA, Kenta SATO, Akira DEGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11928524
    Abstract: The computer system includes one or more storage devices and a management computer, the management computer includes an information collection unit, an event detection unit, a plan generation unit, and a plan execution unit. The plan generation unit determines a target volume of a change process of a right of control in a plan, a processor of a change source of the right of control, and a processor of a change destination of the right of control, estimates an influence by a change process of the right of control in the plan, and the plan execution unit determines execution time of the plan based on the estimation of the influence and the operation information of the storage devices. As a result, in consideration of the influence by an ownership change process, while the influence applied to usage of a computer system is suppressed, the ownership change process is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Shibayama, Kazuei Hironaka, Kenta Sato
  • Patent number: 11762729
    Abstract: A computer management apparatus including a plurality of nodes, each including a processor and a storage device, and stores a countermeasure result table including a plurality of combinations of an anomaly detection rule, a countermeasure rule which is a countermeasure against an anomaly, and an effect indicating effectiveness of these rules, and the management apparatus includes: an anomaly detection unit that detects an anomaly of the computer system based on information acquired from the computer system and the anomaly detection rule; an execution unit that decides a countermeasure, at which the anomaly has been detected by the anomaly detection unit, on the basis of the detected anomaly, the countermeasure rule, and the effect indicating the effectiveness, and executes the decided countermeasure; and a countermeasure result information setting unit that evaluates a result of the countermeasure and records the result in the effect indicating the effectiveness in the countermeasure result table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Shibayama, Akira Deguchi
  • Publication number: 20230266907
    Abstract: A processor of each node of a storage system executes rebalancing to transfer a volume between pool volumes for the node in such a way as to equalize throughput of a data input/output process and/or data capacities between the pool volumes making up the pool. When a plurality of external volumes are transferred to a node in the storage system, the storage management apparatus determines a transfer destination node for the volumes and order of transferring the volumes and executes volume transfer in such a way as to equalize throughput of the data input/output process and/or data capacities between the pool volumes making up the pool after completion of or during the volume transfer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanobu SUZUKI, Tsukasa SHIBAYAMA, Akira DEGUCHI
  • Patent number: 11698740
    Abstract: In a computer system, in a case where a throughput upper limit value is set as upper limit value 1, a throughput limit notification program executed by a storage device gives a notification to a storage management device when a throughput of a logical volume reaches the upper limit value 1. In response to this notification, a throughput upper limit value setting program executed by the storage management device outputs, to the storage device, a command for switching the throughput upper limit value from the upper limit value 1 to upper limit value 2, such that the throughput upper limit value is switched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanobu Suzuki, Akira Deguchi, Tsukasa Shibayama
  • Publication number: 20230214142
    Abstract: To quickly and appropriately adjust a performance of a storage system. A storage configuration optimization device for managing a storage system including one or more storages implemented by a plurality of SDS nodes includes a virtual CPU. The virtual CPU is configured to receive a request for an execution period and a necessary performance of a project using the storage system, and select, based on consumption information and performance information of a resource of the storage system, one or more change patterns satisfying the request for the execution period and the necessary performance from among a plurality of change patterns indicating configuration changes of the storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Miho KOBAYASHI, Akira DEGUCHI, Kazuki TOGO, Tsukasa SHIBAYAMA, Takanobu SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11693684
    Abstract: There are provided an information processing system that operates virtual machines and storage controllers on a processor, and an information processing method executed by the information processing system. A storage controller group capable of taking over processing between the storage controllers arranged in different nodes is provided. The virtual machine is movable between the different nodes by deploy. The virtual machine and the storage controller that processes data input and output by the virtual machine are arranged in the same node. A combination of the virtual machines that cannot be arranged in the same node is defined by a restriction. A management unit arranges one of the virtual machines that cannot be arranged in the same node in the node in which the storage controller included in the storage controller group to which the storage controller used by the other virtual machine belongs is not arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Shibayama, Tomohiro Kawaguchi
  • Publication number: 20230205439
    Abstract: In an information processing system, a plurality of control units (control software) implemented in different storage nodes are managed as a redundancy group, one or more first logical units (SLUs) are associated with the redundancy group, and the plurality of control units included in the redundancy group include an active control unit that processes an input/output (IO) request with respect to the first logical unit, and a standby control unit that takes over the processing when the active control unit fails. A processor (configuration management unit) arranges at least one second logical unit (ALU) in the storage node in which the active control unit exists, and associates the second logical unit with the first logical unit controlled by the active control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Tsukasa SHIBAYAMA, Takanobu SUZUKI, Akira DEGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230195336
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to quickly and appropriately adjust performance of a storage system. Provided is a storage management system including: a storage system including a plurality of storage nodes; and a management device. The storage node includes a storage device and an instance to which a resource is virtually allocated and that controls access to the storage device. The storage management system further includes an instance management node configured to manage the instance of the storage node. The management device is configured to determine whether a configuration of the resource allocated to the instance of the storage node needs to be changed, and cause the instance management node to change the configuration of the resource allocated to the instance when the configuration of the resource needs to be changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuki TOGO, Akira DEGUCHI, Tsukasa SHIBAYAMA, Takanobu SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 11663029
    Abstract: Provided is a resource allocation determination method for a VM/container, volume, and the like created as a new VM/container or volume without exceeding an upper limit of a computer resource of a node in an HCI environment. In order to determine allocation of at least one of a virtual machine, a container, and a volume in a system of the HCI environment, a use state of a computer resource shared by a virtual machine and a storage controller operating on each node is managed, and an allocation destination node of the new virtual machine, container, or volume is determined based on the use state without exceeding an upper limit of a computer resource of the allocation destination node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Shibayama, Akiyoshi Tsuchiya, Tomohiro Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 11586516
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to realize a proper storage operation in accordance with the state of a storage devices which constructed remote copy pair via a network. A first storage device for providing a first volume and a second storage device for providing a second volume as a remote copy destination of the first volume, includes: a storing unit for policy sets that is a regulation group relating to the service quality of the second volume; and a policy selection unit for selecting a policy set to be used from the plurality of policy sets in accordance with the states of the first volume and the second storage device. According to such a configuration and operation, it is possible to properly operate the storage device by selecting a policy set before and after the failover or according to the presence or absence of degeneration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuei Hironaka, Akira Deguchi, Tsukasa Shibayama
  • Publication number: 20220261323
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to realize a proper storage operation in accordance with the state of a storage devices which constructed remote copy pair via a network. A first storage device for providing a first volume and a second storage device for providing a second volume as a remote copy destination of the first volume, includes: a storing unit for policy sets that is a regulation group relating to the service quality of the second volume; and a policy selection unit for selecting a policy set to be used from the plurality of policy sets in accordance with the states of the first volume and the second storage device. According to such a configuration and operation, it is possible to properly operate the storage device by selecting a policy set before and after the failover or according to the presence or absence of degeneration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuei HIRONAKA, Akira DEGUCHI, Tsukasa SHIBAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20220188006
    Abstract: In a computer system, in a case where a throughput upper limit value is set as upper limit value 1, a throughput limit notification program executed by a storage device gives a notification to a storage management device when a throughput of a logical volume reaches the upper limit value 1. In response to this notification, a throughput upper limit value setting program executed by the storage management device outputs, to the storage device, a command for switching the throughput upper limit value from the upper limit value 1 to upper limit value 2, such that the throughput upper limit value is switched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Takanobu SUZUKI, Akira DEGUCHI, Tsukasa SHIBAYAMA
  • Patent number: 11340820
    Abstract: A storage-based migration is performed in a VVOL environment. A migration processing unit generates a migration group in which a virtual volume to be migrated, a protocol endpoint related to the virtual volume, and a storage container that cuts out the virtual volume are grouped, and migrates the migration group to a storage node; and a configuration changing unit configures, based on information of the migration group transmitted from the storage node, a protocol endpoint, a virtual volume, and a storage container on a storage node which are the same as the protocol endpoint, the virtual volume, and the storage container configured on the storage node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takanobu Suzuki, Tomohiro Kawaguchi, Tsukasa Shibayama
  • Publication number: 20220121513
    Abstract: A computer management apparatus including a plurality of nodes, each including a processor and a storage device, and stores a countermeasure result table including a plurality of combinations of an anomaly detection rule, a countermeasure rule which is a countermeasure against an anomaly, and an effect indicating effectiveness of these rules, and the management apparatus includes: an anomaly detection unit that detects an anomaly of the computer system based on information acquired from the computer system and the anomaly detection rule; an execution unit that decides a countermeasure, at which the anomaly has been detected by the anomaly detection unit, on the basis of the detected anomaly, the countermeasure rule, and the effect indicating the effectiveness, and executes the decided countermeasure; and a countermeasure result information setting unit that evaluates a result of the countermeasure and records the result in the effect indicating the effectiveness in the countermeasure result table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsukasa Shibayama, Akira Deguchi