Abstract: A control apparatus comprises a priority determination unit for determining the priority of each of a plurality of applications that use data in different logical volumes constituting a volume group, and a restoration instruction unit for issuing a restoration instruction to a storage system to execute restoration on the plurality of logical volumes constituting the volume group in sequence from a logical volume used by an application having a high priority.

Abstract: The car power source apparatus has battery block 2 having a plurality of connected batteries 1, a battery state detection section 3 connected to the battery block 2, a base-plate 4 having the battery state detection section and battery block mounted on top, a cover-plate 5 that closes-off the top of the base-plate 4, and side-plates 6 that close-off the open regions between the cover-plate 5 and base-plate 4 at both ends. The cover-plate 5 is provided with a top cover 7 that establishes the battery holding region 12 inside, and an electronic component cover 8 that establishes the electronic component compartment 13 inside. The edges at both ends of the cover-plate 5 have end edge-covers 7X, 8X that extend downward from the side-plate 6 top surfaces down the outer surfaces. The end edge-covers 7X, 8X make the connection between the cover-plate 5 and the side-plates 6 a water-tight structure.

Abstract: This storage system modifies the migration plan in accordance with the state of the migration destination when a plurality of volumes are migrated all at once. Migration-source volumes are migrated collectively to volumes inside the migration-destination storage apparatus. The user can make settings related to migration-source volumes and migration-destination volumes in a migration plan, and can establish a mid-process control plan for modifying the migration plan in the middle of processing. If a failure occurs in the migration-destination storage apparatus subsequent to the commencement of data migration processing, a processing method controller either cancels or temporarily halts the data migration processing, or changes the migration destination, on the basis of the mid-process control plan. When changing the migration destination, a previously selected alternate storage apparatus is selected as the new migration-destination storage apparatus.

Abstract: Provided is a storage medium management system, in which when the same data as that stored in a first physical storage area is stored in a second physical storage area, a storage system connected to a host computer compares the number of remaining rewritable times for the first physical storage area and the number of remaining rewritable times for the second physical storage area with each other. When the number of remaining rewritable times for the first physical storage area is less than the number of remaining rewritable times for the second physical storage area, the storage system writes data written from the host computer to the second physical storage area and copies the data written in the second physical storage area to the first physical storage area.

Abstract: The present invention provides a backup method that makes it possible to specify the recovery-enabled time of an application even in a case where a backup has been performed without staticizing the application. In response to a first instruction from a management computer, a storage system backs up a first volume to a second volume at a first time while a first host computer continues to process an application. In response to a second instruction from the management computer, a second host computer reads out the data of the second volume and acquires a second time that is the time at which the application is recovery-enabled. The management computer stores the relationship between the backup and the second time in backup catalog information.

Abstract: A spark-ignition engine comprises a plug hole (13) formed in a cylinder head (2), an ignition plug (10) and a plug cap (9) of the type integral with an ignition coil, which is attached to the ignition plug (10) as it is inserted into the plug hole (13). In this spark-ignition engine, the plug hole (13) is arranged at a position outside a head cover (5) in the cylinder head (2), a head surface (2a) of which is opened to provide the plug hole (13) and has a plug-cap attaching flange (11) attached thereto, and the plug-cap attaching flange (11) is formed with an extending cylinder-portion (15A) having an extension-hole (15) communicated with the plug hole (13). The plug cap (9), as it is inserted from the extension hole (15A) into the plug hole (13), has a coil portion (9C) fixed to the extending cylinder-portion (15).

Abstract: This storage system modifies the migration plan in accordance with the state of the migration destination when a plurality of volumes are migrated all at once. Migration-source volumes are migrated collectively to volumes inside the migration-destination storage apparatus. The user can make settings related to migration-source volumes and migration-destination volumes in a migration plan, and can establish a mid-process control plan for modifying the migration plan in the middle of processing. If a failure occurs in the migration-destination storage apparatus subsequent to the commencement of data migration processing, a processing method controller either cancels or temporarily halts the data migration processing, or changes the migration destination, on the basis of the mid-process control plan. When changing the migration destination, a previously selected alternate storage apparatus is selected as the new migration-destination storage apparatus.

Abstract: The battery system is provided with battery blocks 2 that connect a plurality of battery cells 1 having gas exhaust valves 11; and with hollow exhaust ducts 20 that connect to the gas exhaust valve 11 gas exhaust opening 12 of each battery cell 1 that makes up the battery blocks 2, and that exhaust gas discharged from the gas exhaust openings 12 to the outside. The exhaust ducts 20 are made of plastic with embedded metal lines 21 that extend in the lengthwise direction.

Abstract: A case 20 of each battery cell 1 houses a current interrupt device 30 that cuts-off current when internal pressure exceeds a set pressure. The case has a rectangular outline with a pair of opposing planar surfaces 20A. An electrode unit 10, which is a stack of positive and negative electrode plates 10A with intervening separators 10C, and the current interrupt device 30 are disposed between the pair of opposing planar surfaces. A plurality of battery cells is stacked with opposing planar surfaces 20A opposite each other to form a battery block 2. The power source apparatus has a pair of endplates 4 disposed at the ends of the battery block 2, the pair of endplates 4 is connected by connecting components 5, and the pair of endplates 4 holds the battery cells 1 in the stacked configuration applying pressure in a direction perpendicular to the opposing planar surfaces 20A.

Abstract: The battery system has a battery block 2 with a plurality of battery cells 1 that are rectangular batteries stacked with intervening insulating separators 15, and that battery block 2 is held by fastening components 3. The fastening components 3 are provided with a pair of endplates 4 disposed at the ends of the stacked battery cells 1, and metal bands 5 on both sides of the battery block 2 connected at both ends to the endplates 4. An insulating separator 15 has an insulating plate section 15X, which intervenes between adjacent battery cells 1, and insulating walls 15C, which cover both battery cell 1 side-walls, formed from plastic as a single-piece. In this battery system, insulating plate sections 15X are sandwiched between battery cells 1, and the insulating walls 15C are disposed between battery cell outer side-walls and metal bands to insulate the battery cells from the metal bands.

Abstract: A computer system including: at least one host computer, a storage system for storing data used in the host computer, and a managing computer for managing storing the data in the storage system which are connected to each other with a network. The managing computer monitors the journal volume which is a storing destinations of the journal, in a case that the journal is stored in the journal volume in parallel, when it is detected that the storing destination of the journal changes from one of the groups into which the journal is just stored to another group, transmits an instruction to the storage system to change the storing destination of the journal to another group.

Abstract: A computer system includes a host computer; a storage system for obtaining a snapshot, at a specific point in time, of a data volume, storing data written to the data volume after the specific point in time as a journal, and applying the journal to the snapshot for data recovery; and a management computer. In the computer system, the management computer instructs the storage system to determine whether data at a recovery point after a recovery point of the latest snapshot can be recovered within a specific period of time and to apply, if it has been determined that the data cannot be recovered within the specific period of time, a journal to the latest snapshot to update the latest snapshot to a new snapshot in such a manner that the data can be recovered within the specific period of time.

Abstract: The battery system is provided with battery blocks 2 having a plurality of stacked battery cells 1, a pair of endplates 4 stacked at opposite ends of a battery block 2, connecting rails 5 that join the pair of endplates 4, and output lines 20 that connect to battery cell 1 electrode terminals 13. Output lines 20 are connected to battery cell 1 electrode terminals 13 via transfer bus bars 22, and an output line 20 connecting terminal 21 is connected to a transfer bus bar 22 by a bolt 7, and a nut 8. In this battery system, the nut 8 is attached to an endplate 4 in a manner that does not allow it to rotate, and the bolt 7 is screwed into the nut 8 to attach it to the endplate 4. The output line 20 connecting terminal 21 and transfer bus bar 22 are connected via the bolt 7 and nut 8 and are fixed to the endplate 4.

Abstract: According to the present invention, it is possible to construct a backup configuration of a particular application data, without influencing data of another application. A management computer is coupled to a host computer on which an application operates, and to a storage apparatus that includes a plurality of volume groups each having one or more logical volumes. At least one of the logical volumes is allocated to the application. The management computer includes a volume group overlapping use determination part and a backup policy determination part. When the backup of the volume group to which one logical volume belongs is configured, the volume group overlapping use determination part determines whether there is another application that uses the volume group. The backup policy determination part determines whether there is set, for another volume group, backup policy information same as that set for the application.

Abstract: In a data processing system having a storage system and a management computer for managing the storage system, the management computer has an access right setting request unit for transmitting, to the storage system, a request to set a right to access a designated logical volume in response to a predetermined external input. The storage system also has: a control unit for dynamically expanding, as necessary based on an access request from the host computer, the capacity of a first type logical volume by dynamically assigning storage areas in units of segments of predetermined size thereto; and an access right setting unit for setting, in response to a request to set a right to access the first type logical volume from the management computer, a designated access right for each segment assigned to the first type logical volume.

Abstract: Provided is a computer system, comprising a storage system and a management computer. The management computer manages differential copy start times, differential data amounts of first pairs, and a data amount that can be copied in differential copy per unit time; identifies one of the first pairs for which the differential copy is to be started and a start time of the differential copy; subtracts the data amount of differential copy per unit time that is allocated to the identified one of the first pairs from a differential data amount of the identified first pairs; add the unit time to the identified start time; judges that the differential copy has been finished at a time when the subtracted differential data amount reaches zero or less; and calculates time zones in which the first pairs execute differential copy based on the time at which differential copy has been finished.

Abstract: The car battery array is provided with battery blocks 2 having a plurality of connected batteries 1, a first load-bearing plate 3 on top of which the battery blocks 2 are mounted, a second load-bearing plate 4 attached on both sides to the first load-bearing plate and covering the tops of the battery blocks 2, and a reinforcing rod 5 that connects with the second load-bearing plate 4 and the battery blocks 2 to attach the second load-bearing plate 4 to the battery blocks 2. Battery blocks 2 are disposed in a battery compartment 6 established inside the first load-bearing plate 3 and second load-bearing plate 4, which are joined together on both sides. The battery blocks 2 are mounted on top of the first load-bearing plate 3 and connected to the second load-bearing plate 4 via the reinforcing rod 5 to support the battery block 2 load with the first load-bearing plate 3 and the second load-bearing plate 4.

Abstract: Provided is a computer system including a first storage subsystem and a second storage subsystem. The first storage subsystem has a first storage unit and a first control unit. The second storage subsystem has a second storage unit and a second control unit. The first control unit records journals, and identifies, when data stored in the first storage unit is to be migrated to the second storage unit, which ones of the recorded journals are related to the data that is to be migrated. The first control unit chooses the identified journals one at a time in reverse chronological order, and judges whether or not the chosen journal corresponds to a data update made at some point between a current time and a time that precedes the current time by a length of a journal retention term set for the second storage subsystem.

Abstract: Provided is a computer system which is capable of backup operation with a minimum count of volumes in a remote copy environment when a disaster or the like causes a storage system to stop working normally. The computer system has a host computer, a first storage system, a second storage system, and a management computer. The first storage system contains a data volume which stores data requested by an application to be written. The second storage system contains a mirrored volume to which data stored in the data volume is copied. The computer system is characterized by being configured to receive an input of a policy about backup processing executed in backup volumes and set a configuration of the first storage system and a configuration of the second storage system under the received policy.

Abstract: A battery system includes a battery block, a cooling pipe, and a coolant feeding device. The battery block includes a plurality of rectangular batteries that have a width greater than a thickness and are securely arranged in array alignment by a battery holder. The cooling pipe cools the rectangular batteries of the battery block. The coolant feeding device feeds coolant to the cooling pipe. In the battery system, the cooling pipe is arranged on the surface of the battery block in a thermally-coupled state so that the rectangular batteries are cooled by the coolant, which is circulated through the cooling pipe.