Patent ID: 7610362

Claim:
A method of reproducing a computer system configuration, for causing a second computer system, which has server devices and a storage system, to execute a service or services that have been executed by a first computer system, which has server devices and a storage system, comprising: collecting service-server device association relations between the services and the server devices that are run in the first computer system; collecting server device-storage system association relations in the first computer system; collecting an association relation between the storage system of the first computer system and the storage system of the second computer system; storing as configuration information, in the storage system of the first computer system, the service-server device association relations in the first computer system, the server device-storage system association relations in the first computer system, and the association relation between the storage system of the first storage system and the storage system of the second computer system; copying data of the services of the first computer system and the stored configuration information to the second computer system; searching via the second computer system and based on the copied configuration information of the first computer system for a server device of the second computer system having any one of a processor classification, memory information, and device information which coincides with a processor classification, memory information, and device information of the first computer system, and obtaining from the device information a device identifier of a storage system connected to the server device of the second computer system; and setting based on the copied configuration information the device identifier for the storage device of the second computer system to associate the searched-for server device of the second computer system with the storage system of the second computer system.