Patent ID: 6912627

Claim:
A method of setting a logical storage area to a storage pool of a storage apparatus from a management terminal, wherein said storage apparatus comprises a control unit and plural disks defining one or more RAID groups, and said storage pool including at least one RAID group, said method comprising: at said management terminal, receiving management information of said at least one RAID group in said storage pool from said storage apparatus; at said management terminal, setting a policy name for each of said at least one of RAID group in said storage pool according to said management information of said at least one RAID group; at said management terminal, receiving a policy name for setting said logical storage area; from said management terminal to said storage apparatus, transmitting information that is used to identify a RAID group corresponding to the received policy name to set said logical storage area satisfying condition associated with the received policy name; and sending a request including program identification information of a program executed in said management terminal to said storage apparatus, wherein said management terminal receives said management information of said at least one RAID group in said storage pool from said storage apparatus if said storage apparatus determines that said program is authorized to manage said storage pool by examining said program identification information.