Method and system for deleting low-load allocated virtual server resources

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8296533
APP PUB NO 20110197192A1
SERIAL NO

13091554

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In the environment of a virtual server, there is a problem in that the contents in a disk area released correspondingly with the deletion of the virtual server may be read. According to the present invention, in a virtual computer system controlling a disk volume and a virtual server which is connected to the disk volume, to which the area of the disk volume is allocated as a virtual disk and which executes a process using the allocated virtual disk, the virtual computer system erases information stored in the virtual disk allocated to the virtual server to be deleted correspondingly with the deletion of the virtual server. According to another embodiment of the present invention, an administrative serve is provided to select a server system which is low in load from among plural server systems controlling virtual servers as a server system for erasing information stored in the virtual disk allocated to the virtual server to be deleted.

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  • HITACHI, LTD.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Kataoka, Eri Tokyo, JP 6 30
Takamoto, Yoshifumi Kokubunji, JP 149 3592

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