Conventionally, when a switch virtualizing a storage (storage
virtualization switch) is installed in a computer system including an
SAN, a host computer, and a storage device, since a port ID of a virtual
storage and a port ID of a storage device assigned to the virtual storage
are different, the computer system has to be suspended at the time of
installation of the storage virtualization switch. According to one
embodiment of the invention, the storage virtualization switch installed
in the computer system assigns a port ID to a port of a virtual storage
generated by the storage virtualization switch so as to be equivalent to
a port ID of an existing storage device and, in the case in which the
port ID is designated as an access destination by an access request from
one computer to the storage device, sends the access request to the
virtual storage.