Patent ID: 7631002
Filing Date: 2009-12-08
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for managing data processed in an information processing system having a management computer, a plurality of server computers and a plurality of storage systems coupled to the server computers via a network, the server computers sending data to at least one of the storage systems, the method comprising: displaying, on the management computer, configuration information including the server computers, at least one switch in the network, and the storage systems; defining, by input to the management computer, a data movement condition to trigger movement of data to be processed by at least one of the server computers and at least one of the storage systems in the configuration information displayed on the management computer, the data movement condition including that the data is stored for a certain period of time; identifying data that satisfies the data movement condition; moving the identified data that satisfies the data movement condition from a storage area to another storage area, the storage area and the another storage area relating to one or more disks in the storage systems in the configuration information displayed on the management computer; defining, by input to the management computer, a data compression condition to trigger compression of data to be processed by at least one of the server computers and at least one of the storage systems in the configuration information displayed on the management computer, identifying data that satisfies the data compression condition; compressing the identified data that satisfies the data compression condition; wherein the data movement condition includes a capacity of a storage area in a storage system at an end of the period of time; and obtaining prediction capacity values for each of a plurality of storage areas each corresponding to one of the storage systems, such that the step of identifying data that satisfies the data movement condition identifies a storage area satisfying the data movement condition based on the prediction capacity values, and the moving step moves data from the identified storage area to the another storage area.