Patent ID: 7603538

Claim:
An access environment construction system that can be implemented by a computer system that comprises a host and a storage system, the storage system comprising a plurality of communication ports, a plurality of logical volumes, and a storage controller section such that host environment information which is information related to a host environment can be allocated to at least either at least one of the plurality of communication ports or at least one of the plurality of logical volumes; when a certain communication port among the plurality of communication ports receives a request from the host, the controller section accepts the request if host environment information related to a transmission source host of the request is allocated to the certain communication port and/or the logical volume specified by the request but does not accept the request if no such allocation has been made, the access environment construction system comprising: an access environment construction control section; a host environment information acquisition section that acquires the host environment information from an environment management section that manages the host environment information of the host and reports the host environment information thus acquired to the access environment construction control section; and a storage setting section that constructs an internal path which is a logical path in the storage system by allocating any of the plurality of logical volumes to any of the plurality of communication ports of the storage system and allocates host environment information to at least one of the communication port and logical volume of the constructed path, the access environment construction control section: receiving a designation of a volume condition which is a logical volume-related condition from a user, searching for a logical volume that matches the designated condition among the plurality of logical volumes, instructing the storage setting section to construct the internal path by allocating the logical volume thus found to any of the plurality of communication ports, and instructing the storage setting section to allocate host environment information from the host environment information acquisition section to at least one of the communication port and logical volume of the constructed internal path such that, if the host transmits a request for volume information which is logical volume-related information to the storage system and the host environment information of the host is adapted to the host environment information that is allocated to the communication port receiving the request and/or the logical volume of the internal path containing the communication port, volume information for the logical volume is received from the communication port, and the logical volume is identified.