Patent ID: 7614050
Filing Date: 2009-11-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A deployment machine which prepares a plurality of OS images that are respectively used in a plurality of information processing terminals, the deployment machine being coupled to a first communications network and a second communications network to which a plurality of information processing terminals and one or more storage systems are connected, the deployment machine comprising: a volume preparation part which causes said one or more storage systems to prepare a plurality of terminal logical volumes respectively corresponding to said plurality of information processing terminals, inside said one or more storage systems; an OS image copying part which causes said one or more storage systems to copy the OS image data stored in the logical volumes into each of the one or more terminal logical volumes selected from said plurality of terminal logical volumes without passing through said first communications network, which has a slower transfer rate than said second communications network; and a boot path setting part that sets a dedicated boot path for each of the one or more information processing terminals respectively corresponding to said one or more terminal volumes, and which sets boot paths that are used to access said copied OS image data via said second communications network which is a different network from said first communications network, and wherein said second communications network operates with a higher speed performance than said first communications network.