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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2006
Applicants:
Akihiko Sakaguchi, Tachikawa, JP;
Fuming Liu, Yokohama, JP;
Inventors:
Akihiko Sakaguchi, Tachikawa, JP;
Fuming Liu, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a storage management system in which a storage apparatus is connected via a network to a volume allocation management server having a performance requirement analysis unit, a volume allocation unit, and a volume performance determining unit, the performance requirements of a business application using volume-allocating data and the performance characteristics of a volume serving as a data storage destination are determined, and on the basis of the resulting information, a volume which satisfies the performance requirements is selected as the data storage destination.