Patent ID: 8583883

Claim:
A system comprising: a host computer; a first storage system coupled to the host computer; and a second storage system coupled to the host computer, wherein each of the first storage system and the second storage system comprises: a plurality of storage devices configuring a plurality of RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) groups, one or more logical volumes being configured on storage spaces provided by each of the RAID groups, one or more processors for processing input/output (I/O) requests from the host computer addressed to the logical volumes, and a cache memory for caching read/write data accompanied with the I/O requests, wherein each of the first storage system and the second storage system comprises a shared memory for storing configuration information on the logical volumes being configured on the RAID groups in both of the first storage system and the second storage system, the information indicating which storage spaces of the RAID groups in the first storage system and the second storage system each of logical volumes is being configured on, wherein the one or more processors in the first storage system are configured to stop destaging dirty cache data from the cache memory in the first storage system, migrate all data in the logical volumes on one of the RAID group in the first storage system within storage spaces provided by one of the RAID groups in the second storage system during the stop of destaging, destage the dirty cache data from the cache memory in the first storage system to the storage spaces in the second storage system, update the configuration information on the migrated logical volumes where the migrating is executed, shift a state of the one of the RAID group in the first storage system to a power-saving state, and notify the host computer that the migrated logical volumes are migrated to the second storage system, and wherein the one or more processors in the second storage system are configured to update the configuration information on the migrated logical volumes.