Patent ID: 6907500

Claim:
A method of managing a storage subsystem including a plurality of disk drives and a storage controller to control the disk drives, the storage subsystem being coupled to a service processor, the method comprising: providing a graphic user interface (GUI) to a display area of the service processor, the GUI including a disk group selection region and a layout region that are displayed at the same time; selecting a disk group from a plurality of disk groups presented on the disk group selection region, the selected disk group including a plurality of disk drives that together define a logical volume; displaying on the layout region the disk drives that are included in the selected disk group in a different way than the disk drives that are not included in the selected disk group, the layout region being configured to provide mapping information of the disk drives in the storage subsystem, so that actual locations of the disk drives in the storage subsystems correspond to displayed locations on the layout region; and activating one or more -locating devices associated with the disk drives included in the selected disk group to enable an administrator to easily locate the disk drives included in the selected disk group.