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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2008
Shintaro Inoue, Odawara, JP;
Yutaka Takata, Ninomiya, JP;
Shintaro Inoue, Odawara, JP;
Yutaka Takata, Ninomiya, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A controller in a storage system receives a capacity change command specifying a device, and changes, to a volume capacity value indicating a storage capacity following the capacity change command, a volume capacity value of a virtual volume associated with the device specified in management information, which includes the volume capacity value indicating a storage capacity of the virtual volume. As such, without increasing or decreasing the number of logical volumes associated with a device provided by a host device, the device can be changed in storage capacity.
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