Brundidge & Stranger, P.C.
Storage system having a virtual connection between a virtual network attached process and a management process, and an information processing apparatus and connection method thereof
The storage system in the present invention includes: plural control units for controlling data sending/reception independently for each network; a management unit provided between a management computer and the control units, for managing the control units based on a command sent from the management computer; a virtual communication channel creation unit for creating a virtual communication channel between the management unit and the control units; a virtual communication channel connection unit for separately connecting the management unit and each control unit to the virtual communication channel created by the virtual communication channel creation unit; and a sending unit for sending, to each control unit, a command sent from the management computer via the virtual communication channel connected by the virtual communication channel connection unit.
Hitachi, Ltd.
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Masakuni Takahiro
Agetsuma Nakano