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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2013
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Tomonori Esaka, Tokyo, JP;
Masayasu Asano, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Management of a storage system is facilitated by associating physical volumes of the storage system with virtual volumes corresponding to virtual machines according to specified storage policies in advance. A plurality of disk control devices manage a specified storage area provided by the plurality of physical disks as one or more logical volumes and map the one or more logical volumes matching a storage policy or policies, which include capacity information about a virtual machine(s) and are set to construct the virtual machine, to a virtual volume(s) provided to the virtual machine in response to a request from the management server; and wherein when one of the storage policies is selected, the management server constructs the virtual machine by associating the virtual volume, which complies with the storage policy, with the virtual machine.