Fujitsu Corporation

Ryosuke Suzuki

Kenichi Fujita

Akira Satou

Koutarou Sasage

Hiroshi Shiomi

Yasuhito Kikuchi

Sugio Watanabe

Tooru Kobayashi

A storage controller that controls a virtual storage apparatus is provided, the storage controller includes: a performance measuring unit that obtains performance information on a plurality of volumes present in the virtual storage apparatus; a grouping unit that groups the plurality of volumes into a plurality of performance groups, each of the plurality of performance groups having a different performance requirement, based on the performance information on the plurality of volumes and a grouping rule; and a storage pool managing unit that adds, to a storage pool, one of volumes grouped into the plurality of performance groups until a requirement condition for the storage pool is met, the performance groups from which a virtual volume being to be reserved.

Storage controller, virtual storage apparatus, and computer readable recording medium having storage control program stored therein

A virtualization control apparatus includes a selection unit that, when receiving a copy request, conducting an access test corresponding to the copy request on each of the virtualization switch units and selects one of the virtualization switch units of the highest performance among the plurality of the virtual switch units, and a sending unit that sends the copy request to the selected virtualization switch unit.

Virtualization control apparatus and storage system

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Kawasaki, Japan

Ryosuke Suzuki