Patent ID: 9047247
Filing Date: 2015-06-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A storage system, comprising: a plurality of sites which comprise a storage apparatus comprising a plurality of storage devices, and a host computer which is configured to issue data I/O processing requests to the storage apparatus; a data network which interconnects the storage apparatuses of each of the sites; and a management computer which is configured to exchange information with the storage apparatuses and host computers of each of the sites via a management network and which is configured to manage a data processing performance and a data processing status of each of the sites, wherein the management computer is configured to manage, among the plurality of sites, two or more sites other than a backup site as primary sites and the backup site as a secondary site respectively, remote-copy data which is stored in the storage apparatuses of each of the primary sites to the storage apparatus of the secondary site via the data network respectively, and manage the remote-copied data as copy data, and wherein, when any of the primary sites is subject to disaster, the management computer is configured to select, on the basis of the data processing performance and the data processing status of the sites other than the primary site subject to disaster, at least a normal primary site other than the primary site subject to disaster as a restoration site which possesses processing performance for restoring a restoration target application which is a data I/O processing application which was running on the primary site subject to disaster, and remote-copy restoration copy data, which exists at the secondary site and which is data that was used by the restoration target application, to the storage apparatus of the primary site selected as the restoration site, via the data network, and wherein the management computer is configured to determine whether, among the normal primary sites, there exists a primary site with a data transfer bandwidth for which a data transfer time required to copy the restoration target application from the secondary site is within a recovery time objective, take at least obtaining an affirmative result in this determination as a first condition, and select a normal primary site which fulfills the first condition as the restoration site, and wherein the management computer is configured to determine whether, among the normal primary sites which fulfill the first condition, there exists a primary site which possesses sufficient performance to execute the restoration target application and sufficient capacity for the access target volume of the restoration target application, take at least obtaining an affirmative result in this determination as a second condition, and select a normal primary site which fulfills the second condition as the restoration site.