Abstract: Provided is an automatic analyzer that includes a suction nozzle, a detection container, and a detector. The suction nozzle suctions a sample and a solution used for the detection of the sample. The suctioned sample and the solution are supplied to the detection container. The detector detects a signal from the sample. In addition, a vessel for the sample and a container for the solution are disposed below the detection container.

Abstract: When one of nodes performs a prescribed task, a management computer: obtains a replaceable part value group containing configuration information for components of a group that includes the node, and stores the obtained replaceable part value group in history information; receives at least one node to be evaluated; obtains a replaceable part value group containing configuration information for respective components of a group that includes said node to be evaluated, and stores the obtained replaceable part value group in history comparison target information; selects a combination of the history comparison target information and the history information having matching elements; calculates an evaluation value for the selected combination of the history comparison target information and the history information; and outputs a combination of an evaluation value and a node identifier indicating the history comparison target information and the history information having the matching elements.

Abstract: A computer system comprises a storage system that is configured by at least one real storage apparatus that is provided with a plurality of real resources and a management system that is coupled to the storage system. The management system is configured to allocate a real resource or a virtual resource based on the real resource as a tenant resource from the at least one real storage apparatus to a tenant based on first information that includes an upper limit that is related to a real resource of each of at least one real storage apparatus that is provided with a plurality of real resources and second information that is an upper limit that is related to a real resource that is allocated as a tenant resource that is a resource that can be used by a tenant or as a resource that is a basis of the tenant resource.

Abstract: A management computer stores an operation requirement of a virtual machine and a scheme of a first configuration change executed by a host computer or a storage apparatus. The management computer determines whether a second configuration change configured so as to be executed automatically in the host computer or the storage apparatus is executed. If it is determined that the second configuration change is executed, the management computer predicts a performance index value concerning a prescribed performance index for the computer or the storage apparatus when executing the second configuration change. The management computer determines whether an anticipated effect value of the configuration change scheme is satisfied based on the predicted performance index value, and creates a substitution plan satisfying both an operation requirement and an anticipated effect value of the virtual machine where it is determined that the anticipated effect value is not satisfied.

Abstract: A management system that generates a plan which is a countermeasure against an event occurring in a computer system includes: a plan generating unit configured to generate a plan according to the event; and an indicator generating unit configured to generate, as a performance change evaluation indicator of the plan, information on a change in performance of a resource of the computer system, which can occur due to other subject's process executed by the other subject different from a subject of the plan when the plan generated by the plan generating unit is executed.

Abstract: In one mode, a management calculator is connected to a host calculator and a storage device, and stores, in a memory, composition information and function setting information. The composition information shows multiple logic storage regions provided by the storage device, and objects that are stored in one logic storage region from among the multiple logic storage regions and that are executed by the host calculator, the logic storage regions and the objects being shown in association with one another. Meanwhile, the function setting information shows storage functions set for the logic storage regions.

Abstract: A memory stores first configuration information indicating a plurality of logical storage areas and a first condition defining a state of a storage apparatus as a trigger for the storage apparatus to move data. A CPU acquires: a second condition defining a state of a computer as a trigger for the computer to move a first object, which is stored in a first logical storage area among the plurality of logical storage areas and performed by the computer, to another one of the plurality of logical storage areas; second configuration information associating the first object and the first logical storage area; first state information indicating a state of the plurality of logical storage areas; and second state information indicating a state of the first object. If a state of performing data movement is set, the CPU identifies a cause of the state of performing the data movement.

Abstract: A memory stores first configuration information indicating a plurality of logical storage areas and a first condition defining a state of a storage apparatus as a trigger for the storage apparatus to move data. A CPU acquires: a second condition defining a state of a computer as a trigger for the computer to move a first object, which is stored in a first logical storage area among the plurality of logical storage areas and performed by the computer, to another one of the plurality of logical storage areas; second configuration information associating the first object and the first logical storage area; first state information indicating a state of the plurality of logical storage areas; and second state information indicating a state of the first object. If a state of performing data movement is set, the CPU identifies a cause of the state of performing the data movement.

Abstract: A management computer stores, in a memory, virtual logical volume management information showing information on virtual logical volumes provided to a host computer by a storage device, and pool management information showing information related to a use status of pools. The management computer acquires performance information related to an access to the storage device from the host computer, determines whether the acquired performance related to the access satisfies a predetermined first required performance, or not, and specifies any virtual logical volume which is a cause of the state based on the virtual logical volume management information if the first required performance is not satisfied. The management computer calculates a capacity consumption trend of the real area included in each pool based on the pool management information, creates a countermeasure for satisfying the first required performance implementable after a given time, and outputs the countermeasure to an output device.

Abstract: When executing an instruction for changing a configuration of a virtual storage apparatus during an inter-enclosure data migration of storage apparatuses that provide the virtual storage apparatus, an appropriate command is issued to an appropriate storage apparatus.

Abstract: Proposed are a test environment management apparatus and a test environment construction method capable of swiftly constructing a test environment of an integrated system.

Abstract: An exemplary management system identifies, based on first information indicating a job net defining an execution order of jobs executed by the host computer, jobs having possibility to be executed simultaneously at the job net. The management system identifies, based on second information indicating an execution content of each of the jobs, storage areas at the host computer for storing data of the jobs having possibility to be executed simultaneously. The management system identifies, based on third information indicating an allocation relation between the data storage areas of the host computer and resources of the storage apparatus, a resource of the storage apparatus allocated to each of the identified storage areas. The management system determines a physical resource of the storage apparatus, allocated to at least two of the storage areas of the identified storage areas, has possibility to be used simultaneously by at least two jobs.

Abstract: A memory stores first configuration information indicating a plurality of logical storage areas and a first condition defining a state of a storage apparatus as a trigger for the storage apparatus to move data. A CPU acquires: a second condition defining a state of a computer as a trigger for the computer to move a first object, which is stored in a first logical storage area among the plurality of logical storage areas and performed by the computer, to another one of the plurality of logical storage areas; second configuration information associating the first object and the first logical storage area; first state information indicating a state of the plurality of logical storage areas; and second state information indicating a state of the first object. If a state of performing data movement is set, the CPU identifies a cause of the state of performing the data movement.

Abstract: A storage apparatus includes a storage unit for storing data read/written by a host computer and provides the host computer with a storage area of the storage unit as one or more volumes. The storage management computer includes a first memory for storing task information including contents of an operation process performed on the storage apparatus, as well as a scheduled starting time and scheduled termination time of a process, and, in the case where first task information is stored in the first memory, when resources used in the process of second task information stored in the first memory are the same as resources used in the process of the first task information, the storage management computer computes times required for executing the first task information and the second task information, based on a time during which the processes of the first and second task information conflict with each other.

Abstract: A storage apparatus includes a storage unit for storing data read/written by a host computer and provides the host computer with a storage area of the storage unit as one or more volumes. The storage management computer includes a first memory for storing task information including contents of an operation process performed on the storage apparatus, as well as a scheduled starting time and scheduled termination time of a process, and, in the case where first task information is stored in the first memory, when resources used in the process of second task information stored in the first memory are the same as resources used in the process of the first task information, the storage management computer computes times required for executing the first task information and the second task information, based on a time during which the processes of the first and second task information conflict with each other.

Abstract: Tier management is performed immediately in response to the priority level of an object. A priority level is determined for each of two or more objects included in a specific computer program. A physical memory area is extracted that is a relocation target for each of the two or more objects. Using a management apparatus, a specific physical memory area is selected from the physical memory areas that are relocation targets based on the priority level for each of the objects. The management apparatus instructs a storage apparatus to allocate data stored in the selected specific physical memory area to the physical memory area in a specific storage tier.

Abstract: A memory stores first configuration information indicating a plurality of logical storage areas and a first condition defining a state of a storage apparatus as a trigger for the storage apparatus to move data. A CPU acquires: a second condition defining a state of a computer as a trigger for the computer to move a first object, which is stored in a first logical storage area among the plurality of logical storage areas and performed by the computer, to another one of the plurality of logical storage areas; second configuration information associating the first object and the first logical storage area; first state information indicating a state of the plurality of logical storage areas; and second state information indicating a state of the first object. If a state of performing data movement is set, the CPU identifies a cause of the state of performing the data movement.

Abstract: The automatic analyzer includes a suction nozzle; a liquid transfer syringe; a suction channel which connects the suction nozzle and the liquid transfer syringe; a flow cell which is arranged in the middle of the suction channel; a detector for sample analysis which is arranged in the flow cell; a reaction auxiliary liquid vessel and a cleaning liquid vessel which store liquids to be sucked in by the suction nozzle; means for supplying a diluting fluid to the vessels; a cleaning tank for dumping liquid remaining in the vessels; and a controller for supplying the diluting fluid to the vessels when the remaining liquid is discharged from the vessels and thereafter having the diluted remaining liquid sucked into the flow cell via the suction nozzle and having the sucked remaining liquid discharged to the cleaning tank.

Abstract: According to an embodiment of the disclosure, the analyzer includes a reagent driving disk that accommodates a reagent configured for analysis and that transports the reagent to a desired position, and a fixed disk that has a reagent stand-by position in which to make a reagent container containing the reagent, temporarily stand by, and a magnetic particles stirring position for stirring magnetic particles. A portion of the reagent stand-by position is constituted by a loading system. A reagent container moving unit moves reagent containers containing the reagent, between the reagent driving unit and the fixed disk, according to analytical request status. Providing in a part of the fixed disk the loading system constructed so that reagent containers containing the reagent can be mounted therein during operation enables changing of reagent containers, irrespective of an operational status of the reagent driving disk, and the system to having cold-storage functionality.

Abstract: In recent years, data life cycle management, in which data is relocated from, for example, a new storage sub-system to an older storage sub-system in accordance with how new the data is or the frequency of use of the data, has become important. One technology for achieving data life cycle management is technology for migrating the contents of a storage area (“volume”) of a storage sub-system to another volume without affecting the host computer that uses the volume. In the present invention, when an associated source volume (for example, the source volume in a copy pair association) of a pair of associated volumes is migrated, migration of an associated destination volume (for example, the target volume in the copy pair association) is also controlled. In this way, it is possible to control the migration of a pair (or a group) of associated volumes in accordance with the user's requirements.