Patent ID: 8868819
Filing Date: 2014-10-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A management system coupled to a storage system group comprising a plurality of storage systems including a plurality of logical volumes, the storage system group including a virtual storage system, which is a scale-out storage system that is configured by more than one of the plurality of storage systems, the management system comprising: an interface device, which is coupled to the storage system group; a processor, which is coupled to the interface device; and a storage resource storing instructions that are executable by the processor to manage one or more volume sets formed by plural logical volumes among the plurality of logical volumes, wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions stored by the storage resource to: receive a remote copy pair create instruction from a user, and migrate a target logical volume of a target logical volume set among the volume sets, to an identified storage system so that the identified storage system includes all logical volumes of the target logical volume set, wherein the target logical volume is a copy source volume or a copy destination volume, and wherein all logical volumes of the target logical volume set are copy source volumes or copy destination volumes.