Patent ID: 7953942

Claim:
A storage system, comprising: a first storage device including a plurality of first disk devices and a first controller which configures an external logical volume on said first disk drives; a second storage device coupled to the first storage device and a host device, and including a plurality of second disk devices and a second controller, which provides both a first logical volume, which virtualizes the external logical volume provided by the first storage device, and a second logical volume configured by the second disk drives in the second storage device to the host device, and a cache memory storing data from the host device to the first and second logical volumes, the second controller, on receipt of the first write command from the host device to the first logical volume through a first path between the host device and the first logical volume, sending a second write command corresponding to the first write command to the first storage device; and a third storage device coupled to the first storage device and the host device, and including a third controller which is capable of providing a third logical volume to the host device, wherein the second storage device has a relation information of a relation between the first logical volume and the external logical volume provided by the first storage device and owner right information regarding an owner right to access the external logical volume, wherein when the second storage device receives an instruction of migration of the first logical volume to the third storage device without migrating data stored in the external logical volume, the second storage device sends the relation information to the third storage device, wherein when the third storage device receives the relation information, the third storage device creates the third logical volume by virtualizing the external logical volume and accessed by the host device through a second path between the host device and the third logical volume, wherein the second storage device sends the owner right information to the third storage device, and the second storage device, after sending the owner right information to the third storage device, rejects access from the host device to the first logical volume, and destages data related to the first logical volume in the cache memory to the first storage device, and wherein if the second storage device rejects the access from the host device to the first logical volume, path switching is performed from the first path to the second path and the third storage device accepts access from the host device to the third logical volume through the second path.