Patent ID: 8332673

Claim:
A storage system, comprising: a storage apparatus in which a plurality of disk apparatuses are mounted and the plurality of disk apparatus comprises a plurality of RAID groups; a server apparatus configured to run a plurality of applications and perform data input/output processing to and from storage areas of the plurality of disk apparatuses; and a management computer configured to manage a usage state of the storage apparatus and the server apparatus; wherein the storage apparatus is configured to manage power consumption and a temporal transition thereof for each of the plurality of RAID groups; the server apparatus is configured to manage a transaction count and a temporal transition thereof for each application; the management computer is configured to manage application configuration information that shows one or more RAID groups used by each of the plurality of applications; and the management computer is configured to use the application configuration information to identify the one or more RAID groups used by an application utilized by a management target among the plurality of applications, calculate an electric power that is consumed (power consumption) in the one or more RAID groups in order to execute an application that is a management target based on the power consumption for the each of the plurality of RAID groups obtained from the storage apparatus; acquire a transaction count of the application that is the management target from the server apparatus; and display a temporal transition in the calculated power consumption and the transaction count for the application that is the management target on a display section.