Patent ID: 7865768

Claim:
In a system including a management server, a plurality of processor devices, and a plurality of storage devices, the processor devices and the storage devices being coupled to the management server via a network, a method for the management server to establish a clustering system comprising: storing storage device information relating to each of the storage devices; receiving a command from a user interface for specifying at least one candidate of secondary storage devices to which data stored in a primary storage device can be copied and at least one candidate of secondary processor devices, the command having information for identifying a primary processor device and the primary storage device which are configured to be a primary computer resource; and specifying at least one candidate of secondary storage devices corresponding to the primary storage device based on the storage device information, the at least one candidate of secondary processor devices corresponding to the primary processor device, and the at least one candidate of secondary storage devices and the at least one candidate of secondary processor devices being configured to be at least one secondary computer resource for the primary computer resource, wherein the storage device information includes an IP address assigned to the each of the storage devices.