Patent ID: 7644302
Filing Date: 2010-01-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A snapshot-used restarting method for a computing system comprising: a plurality of active servers which are connected to a disk device including a plurality of disk drives; at least one backup server connected to the disk device; an administration server to which said active servers and said backup server are connected; and each active server having means for storing a snapshot containing memory content of said each active server in said disk drives; the method comprising said administration server performing steps of: wherein when a failure occurs in one of said active servers, designated a failed active server, extracting a plurality of disk drives in which a snapshot corresponding to said failed active server is stored based on said information in said disk management storage area; selecting a disk drive corresponding to said predetermined condition from among said extracted disk drives using said information in said disk management storage area; and establishing a connection with and starting up said backup server.