Patent ID: 8909984

Claim:
A storage management apparatus that manages a plurality of storage apparatuses in a storage system that disperses and stores in the plurality of storage apparatuses data that is made redundant so as to have a predetermined redundancy level, the storage management apparatus comprising: a patrol process unit that performs, at a patrol speed, a patrol process of confirming that the plurality of storage apparatuses are being operated normally; a relocating process unit that performs, at a relocating process speed, a relocating process of moving the data between the plurality of storage apparatuses; a recovery process unit that performs, at a recovery process speed, a recovery process of recovering the redundancy level of the data when a fault occurs in the plurality of storage apparatuses; and a processing speed control unit that outputs an instruction on an operation at the patrol process unit, the relocating process unit, and the recovery process unit in such a manner that the recovery process speed or a sum of the patrol process speed and the relocating process speed becomes a predetermined value.