SAN management method and a SAN management system

摘要

A SAN management method in which a host to which an application should be shifted can be decided so that the influence of data transfer load is eliminated as extremely as possible. To shift an application A operating on a host A to another host, a management server performs a data load conversion process S to predict data transfer load on the SAN in the case where the application will be shifted to a host B or C. The management server also performs a bottleneck analyzing process on each resource on the SAN. The management server further performs a destination host decision process on the basis of a result of the bottleneck analyzing process to decide a non-bottlenecked host as a destination host to which the application A should be shifted.