Information processing system, monitoring apparatus, and network device
Each information processing apparatus judges a busy flag of a first port thereof based on a result of comparison of a busy level of the first port and a busy level of a second port of another information processing apparatus. A monitoring apparatus determines from among the information processing apparatuses, a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus, based on the results of judgment by the information processing apparatuses. An L2 switch changes to the second information processing apparatus, a destination of a frame whose destination is the first information processing apparatus and changes to the first information processing apparatus, a transmission source of the frame whose transmission source is the second information processing apparatus.
1. An information processing system comprising:
a plurality of information processing apparatuses having ports that input and output data;
a monitoring apparatus connected to each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses; and
a network device connected to the monitoring apparatus, the network device further connected by a single port, to a port of the each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses, wherein
the each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses judges based on a result of comparison of a first value indicating an extent of delay of a response to a request at the port of the each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses and a second value obtained from another of the plurality of information processing apparatus and indicating an extent of delay of a response to the request at a port of the other information processing apparatus, whether response to the request is executable by the port of the each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses,
the monitoring apparatus acquires from the each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses, a result of judgment of whether response to the request is executable by the port of the each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses, and based on the acquired result of judgment by the each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses, determines from the plurality of information processing apparatuses, a first information processing apparatus to which the data is not transmitted and a second information processing apparatus to which the data is transmitted in place of the first information processing apparatus, and
the network device acquires from the monitoring apparatus, information that identifies the first information processing apparatus and the second information processing apparatus, the network device further changes to the second information processing apparatus, a destination of the data to the first information processing apparatus and changes to the first information processing apparatus, a transmission source of the data from the second information processing apparatus.
2. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein
the plurality of information processing apparatuses is a plurality of storages that share the data,
the information processing system further comprises a transmission apparatus that is connected to the monitoring apparatus and transmits a read request or a write request to the plurality of information processing apparatuses, and
the monitoring apparatus acquires from the transmission apparatus, a classification of the request to the plurality of information processing apparatuses, and based on the acquired result of judgment by the each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses and the classification of the request, determines the first information processing apparatus and the second information processing apparatus.
3. The information processing system according to claim 2 , wherein
the transmission apparatus stores information that identifies of the plurality of information processing apparatuses, a read-destination information processing apparatus that stores the data that is a target of the read request,
the monitoring apparatus acquires from the transmission apparatus, the information that identifies the read-destination information processing apparatus, when the classification of the request is the read request and the result of judgment by the each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses includes a result of judgment indicating that response to the request is unexecutable, and
the monitoring apparatus determines as the first information processing apparatus, an information processing apparatus that corresponds to the result of judgment indicating that response to the request is unexecutable and determines as the second information processing apparatus, an information processing apparatus that is the read-destination information processing apparatus and that corresponds to a result of judgment indicating that response to the request is executable.
4. The information processing system according to claim 3 , wherein
the monitoring apparatus instructs the each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses to relocate the data that is the target of the read request, when the information processing apparatus that is the read-destination information processing apparatus and that corresponds to the result of judgment indicating that response to the request is executable is not present, and
the monitoring apparatus, after instructing relocation, determines as the first information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus that corresponds to the result of judgment indicating that response to the request is unexecutable and determines as the second information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus that corresponds to the result of judgment indicating that response to the request is executable.
5. The information processing system according to claim 2 , wherein
the monitoring apparatus, when the classification of the request is the write request and the result of judgment by the each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses includes a result of judgment indicating that response to the request is unexecutable, determines as the first information processing apparatus, an information processing apparatus that corresponds to the result of judgment indicating that response to the request is unexecutable and determines as the second information processing apparatus, an information processing apparatus that corresponds to a result of judgment indicating that response to the request is executable.
6. The information processing system according to claim 2 , wherein
the plurality of information processing apparatuses builds a virtual storage,
the each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses stores virtual storage identification information that identifies the virtual storage, and judges whether response to the request is executable by the port of the each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses, based on the result of comparison of the first value and the second value indicating the extent of delay of a response to the request at the port of the other of the plurality of information processing apparatuses storing the virtual storage identification information of a value identical to that of the virtual storage identification information stored by the each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses, and
the monitoring apparatus stores correlated with the each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses, the virtual storage identification information stored by the each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses, and based on the acquired result of judgment by the each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses, determines from the plurality of information processing apparatuses and correlates with the virtual storage identification information, the first information processing apparatus to which the data is not transmitted and the second information processing apparatus to which the data is transmitted in place of the first information processing apparatus.