Patent ID: 8589616
Filing Date: 2013-11-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A management system coupled to a storage system group including a virtual storage system, which is a scale-out storage system that is configured by a plurality of storage systems, the management system comprising: a storage resource; and a processor, which is coupled to the storage resource, wherein the storage resource stores, for each of the storage systems, storage management information denoting whether or not a respective storage system is a component of the virtual storage system, and the processor is configured to: (a) determine, based on the storage management information, whether or not a first storage system is a component of the virtual storage system, (b) identify, based on the storage management information, a second storage system, which is not a component of the virtual storage system including the first storage system in a case where the result of the determination in (a) is affirmative, and (c) allow a user to configure a remote copy pair that uses a logical volume as either a copy source volume or a copy destination volume only with respect to the second storage system, wherein the remote copy pair is a pair of a logical volume of the first storage system and the logical volume of the second storage system, and the logical volume of the first storage system is either the copy destination volume or the copy source volume, respectively.