INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, REDUNDANCY PROVIDING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

摘要

In an information processing system including I/O cards provided with redundancy, the disclosed system and method realize a fail-over that enables improvement of the availability of the information processing apparatus. An information processing system constituting the information processing apparatus includes first and second I/O cards; a BIOS that performs a detection of a correctable failure of the first I/O card; a predictive monitoring unit that performs a predictive detection of a sign of an occurrence of a hardware failure of the first I/O card when a result of the detection of the correctable failure indicates an occurrence of the correctable failure; and an OS that disconnects the first I/O card and performs switching from the first I/O card to the second I/O card when a result of the predictive detection indicates an existence of the sign of the occurrence of the hardware failure of the first I/O card.

主权项

1. An information processing system comprising:
a first I/O card and a second I/O card; a BIOS that performs a detection of a correctable failure of the first I/O card; a predictive monitoring unit that performs a predictive detection of a sign of an occurrence of a hardware failure of the first I/O when a result of the detection of the correctable failure indicates an occurrence of the correctable failure; and an OS that disconnects the first I/O card and performs switching from the first I/O card to the second I/O card when a result of the predictive detection indicates an existence of the sign of the occurrence of the hardware failure of the first I/O card.