Patent ID: 7529954

Claim:
A control method of controlling an information processing apparatus communicably connected to a storage device, the apparatus including a memory, and an input unit, the memory storing, as virtual configuration information, configuration information including setting information of hard disk drives of the storage device, the memory storing information indicating whether a management mode as a control method of the configuration information is a first mode or a second mode, the control method comprising the steps of: receiving a setting instruction of the configuration information from the input unit; updating, when information in the memory indicates that the management mode is the first mode, the virtual configuration information in the memory according to the setting instruction; storing the setting instruction to update the virtual configuration information into the memory; transmitting the setting instruction from the memory to the storage device; transferring, when information in the memory indicates that the management mode is the second mode, the setting instruction to the storage device; receiving a first management mode selection instruction to select the management mode to the first mode from the input unit; transmitting, when the first management mode selection instruction is received, an acquisition request to acquire the configuration information to a device; receiving the configuration information transmitted from the device in response to the acquisition request; storing, when the first management mode selection instruction is received, information indicating that the management mode is the first mode into the memory; and storing the configuration information received from the device into the memory, the configuration information being stored as the virtual configuration information.