Patent ID: 8732356

Claim:
A storage system, comprising: a plurality of access paths which are set between a host computer and a storage device; an access path management unit which manages a state of each of the access paths independently for each logical disk formed on the storage device; an I/O speed calculation unit which stores, for each of the access paths, a data size and required time obtained when an I/O is executed using the access path, and calculates an I/O speed using the stored data size and required time, for every predetermined calculation cycle; a path candidate selection unit which selects, out of the access paths and as a candidate of the access path to be used for the I/O to the logical disk, an access path of which access path state is set to an available state, when a condition to update the access path state is established; and a path candidate exclusion unit which calculates a performance determination threshold using a highest speed value among the I/O speed values corresponding to the access paths selected by the path candidate selection unit, and excludes the access paths of which I/O speed values are lower than the performance determination threshold from the candidates, wherein the access path management unit updates the states of the access paths by sequentially changing the states of the access paths, out of the candidates remaining after the exclusion by the path candidate exclusion unit, to the states of being available for the I/O to the logical disk, in order of the I/O speed from fastest until the number of access paths reaches the maximum number of paths which is set in advance.