Patent ID: 9069465
Filing Date: 2015-06-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer system, comprising: a computer resource including one or more servers and a storage coupled to the one or more servers, for providing an application; and a management server including a processor and a memory, configured to manage the computer resource, the management server comprising: application information holding an identifier of the application, a system image corresponding to the identifier of the application, a number of uses of the application, a server used by the application, the storage used by the application, whether application data used in the application is stored, and a location of the storage in which the application data is stored; receive an resource allocation request comprising the identifier of the application and a required amount of resource including an amount of resource to be allocated to the application, refer to the application information to identify the application and the system image corresponding to the identifier, acquire the number of uses of the application and whether the application data is stored, and judge whether a use of application is a first time or reuse from the number of uses; wherein when the application data is stored as backup data, instead determine a combination of the different storage satisfying the required amount of resource for a server and a storage which satisfies the required amount of resource and is accessible to the storage different from the storage storing the application data by referring to the resource information, and allocate the system image to the determined server.