A method controls a storage system including a first storage apparatus
including a first storage volume to store data therein, a second storage
apparatus including a second storage volume to store data therein, the
first and second storage apparatuses being communicably connected, and an
information processor communicably connected to the first storage
apparatus. The method includes the steps of transmitting by the
information processor an identifier to identify the second storage volume
in the second storage apparatus to the first storage apparatus,
describing by the first storage apparatus the identifier in a data
input/output request for the second storage volume and transmitting the
data input/output request to the second storage apparatus, and executing
by the second storage apparatus data input/output processing for the
second storage volume identified by the identifier described in the data
input/output request.