US 12,436,971 B2
Support device and method
Miho Kobayashi, Tokyo (JP); Soichi Watanabe, Tokyo (JP); Mitsuo Hayasaka, Tokyo (JP); and Shimpei Nomura, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HITACHI VANTARA, LTD., Yokohama (JP)
Filed by Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 6, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/597,755.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-129248 (JP), filed on Aug. 8, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0053575 A1, Feb. 13, 2025
Int. Cl. G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/27 (2019.01) 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A support device connected to a plurality of sites each having a server and a storage device, and for supporting construction of a secondary usage environment in which the server uses data stored in the storage device, the support device comprising:
a construction candidate plan calculation unit configured to calculate a plurality of construction candidate plans for the secondary usage environment including a copy method for copying the data between a designated copy source site and a designated copy destination site of the data, wherein each construction candidate plan specifies a different copy method selected from a plurality of available copy methods based on database administrator requirements; and
a construction candidate plan presentation unit configured to calculate, for each of the construction candidate plans calculated by the construction candidate plan calculation unit, a time and a cost required for copying the data and an operation cost of the secondary usage environment to be constructed, and to present the plurality of construction candidate plans based on a calculation result together with evaluations thereof.