Patent ID: 8627028
Filing Date: 2014-01-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A management computer, for use in a context wherein one or more host computers and one or more storage apparatuses are configured to communicate with each other using a first network, and wherein the one or more host computers and the one or more storage apparatuses are configured to communicate with the management computer using a second network, the management computer configured to acquire an application configuration information identifying using the second network, a volume of one of the storage apparatuses used by an application in one of the one or more host computers, the management computer further configured to create management computer application configuration information identifying the volume of one of the storage apparatuses used by the one host computer, using the acquired application configuration information, and configured to store the created management computer application configuration information in a memory unit, the management computer configured to acquire information on an unused volume in each of the storage apparatuses using the second network from each of the storage apparatuses, the management computer configured to create volume configuration information in which the created management computer application configuration information and the acquired information on the unused volume are arranged, and configured to store the created volume configuration information in the memory unit, the management computer configured to create a configuration definition of a copy pair including an original volume into which data in the host computer are written and a duplicated volume into which data are copied, and configured to store the copy pair configuration definition in the memory unit, and the management computer configured to select, upon specification by an input unit of a group constituted by a plurality of applications at a primary site and a remote site, a volume used by the specified group without duplication by referencing the volume configuration information; configured to designate the selected volume as a copy source volume; configured to designate an unused volume having a capacity larger than that of the copy source volume as a copy destination volume; and configured to create copy pair configuration definition information associating the copy source volume with the copy destination volume.