Patent ID: 7415582

Claim:
A storage system construction managing device which manages the construction of a storage system comprising a host device and a storage device that provides a storage region to the host device, comprising: a first managing part which divides the host device into a plurality of logical host devices, and which respectively distributes specified resources from among the resources possessed by the host device to the respective logical host devices; a second managing part which divides the storage device into a plurality of logical storage devices, and which respectively distributes specified resources from among the resources possessed by the storage device to the respective logical storage devices; a third managing part which divides a relay device for connecting the host device and the storage device into a plurality of logical relay devices, and which respectively distributes specified resources from among the resources possessed by the relay device to the respective logical relay devices; an information collecting part which respectively acquires specified information relating to the respective logical host devices and the respective logical storage devices via the first managing part and the second managing part; a disposition managing part which respectively judges, on the basis of the respective collected sets of specified information, whether or not an excess or insufficiency has occurred in the specified resources used by respective application programs that are executed by the respective logical host devices, and which, in cases where it is judged that the excess or insufficiency has occurred, re-disposes the specified resources by issuing a construction alteration request to the managing part from among the respective managing parts that manages the specified resources involved in the excess or insufficiency, so that the excess or insufficiency is eliminated; a history managing part which respectively stores and manages the histories of the respective sets of specified information; and a user interface part which outputs the histories of the respective sets of specified information that are managed by the history managing part, wherein specified information relating to the respective logical relay devices is also included in the specified information that is collected by the information collecting part.