Patent ID: 7971089
Filing Date: 2011-06-28
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-readable recording medium that stores therein a computer program for managing an operation of a plurality of servers that is booted up using a boot disk on a storage area network, the computer program causing a computer to execute: managing a group of servers connected to the boot disk by the storage area network as a server domain, a group of servers currently not operated from among the servers belonging to the server domain being managed as a server domain pool, the managing including managing a plurality of server domains; switching, when a failure occurs in any one of operating servers, a connection of the boot disk on the storage area network from a failed server to a substitute server belonging to a server domain to which the failed server belongs, the switching including: booting the substitute server using the boot disk on the storage area network of which the connection is switched to the substitute server at the switching.