METHOD FOR SETTING STORAGE AREA, STORAGE DEVICE, AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that an administrator needs to prepare an LU as a pool area in advance when a storage area that a user uses is set on a storage device and the problem that it is generally complicated to structure the LU and not easy for a general user. SOLUTION: A pool administrative manager 1 (311) on an administration console 1 (301) and a setting utility (321) for a storage 1 communicate with a program in a storage 1 (101), which sets a pool area having specified storage capacity. At a request for volume generation from the administration console 1 (301), the storage 1 (101) sets the storage capacity of a volume, specified from the set pool area as used and sets the specified volume. When the volume is generated, a policy is specified and a storage area which has specific properties can be selected from the pool area.