Patent ID: 8161262

Claim:
A storage system management method for a storage system including real volumes and pooled volumes included in a first volume pool, comprising: (A) storing storage information indicating capacities of the real volumes and the pooled volumes; (B) receiving an input for creation of a virtual volume, the input including a virtual volume capacity, and an assigned capacity threshold; (C) sending a virtual volume creation request, including the virtual volume capacity to the storage system, so that the storage system creates a certain virtual volume which capacity is the virtual volume capacity, and assigns an area of the pooled volumes to an unassigned address in the certain virtual volume, in response to a write access from a host computer coupled to the storage system; (D) detecting that a capacity of the area of the pooled volumes assigned to the certain virtual volume exceeds the assigned capacity threshold; (E) selecting a volume having a capacity that is equal to or larger than the virtual volume capacity and which is one of the real volumes and the pooled volumes, based on the storage information; and (F) migrating data stored in the certain virtual volume to the selected volume of the storage system, wherein if the volume selection which capacity is equal to or larger than the virtual volume capacity is failed, the management computer sends a request to the storage system to create a second volume pool, moving at least one of the pooled volumes from the first volume pool to the second volume pool so that a relation of the certain virtual volume is changed from the first volume pool to the second volume pool.