Patent ID: 7219192
Filing Date: 2007-05-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A storage control apparatus comprising: a data I/O control section, which has a plurality of communication ports each of which is connectable with any of a plurality of information processing apparatuses, is communicatively connected to a plurality of physical disk drives for storing data, receives a data I/O request for data stored in the physical disk drives from the information processing apparatuses via the communication ports, and performs data read/write from/to the physical disk drives in accordance with the received data I/O request; a cache memory; storage resources which are partitioned into a plurality of storage resource groups each having one or more communication ports, storage capacity in said cache memory and one or more physical disk drives, wherein each storage resource group is assigned to an user, wherein said user is permitted to set a configuration of said one or more communication ports, said storage capacity in said cache memory and said one or more physical disk drives of said storage resource group assigned to said user; and a second memory which stores information on management of said storage resources including said storage resource groups each being assigned to a user and having said one or more communication ports, said storage capacity in said cache memory, and said one or more physical disk drives, wherein in response to reception of a transmission request of the information on management of a first storage resources group from a first user via a user interface, the storage control apparatus transmits an identifier of the one or more communication ports, an identifier of the one or more physical disk drives, and a storage capacity of the cache memory in the first storage resource group assigned to said first user.