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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2003
Yuri Hiraiwa, Sagamihara, JP;
Hirofumi Nagasuka, Sagamihara, JP;
Keiko Kiyoi, Legal Representative, Kawasaki, JP;
Katsuhisa Miyata, Yokohama, JP;
Taketoshi Sakuraba, Sagamihara, JP;
Yuri Hiraiwa, Sagamihara, JP;
Hirofumi Nagasuka, Sagamihara, JP;
Keiko Kiyoi, legal representative, Kawasaki, JP;
Katsuhisa Miyata, Yokohama, JP;
Taketoshi Sakuraba, Sagamihara, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
When collecting information about management of a storage of a disk subsystem, loads imposed on a host computer and a network are alleviated to improve the throughput of a computer system having the storage. The disk subsystem includes a CPU and a main memory and information on a disk is collected in response to a request from a management computer. An information collection program is operated on the disk subsystem, whereby, volume management information can be edited on the disk subsystem and utilized by the management computer.