A technique that can efficiently achieve migration of a configuration and
data between storage units with varying constructions of configuration
information and that can alleviate burdens of personal operation by an
administrator, etc. With the configuration information of each storage
unit controlled by the storage control server, based on each piece of
configuration information, the transfer-source configuration information
is converted into information necessary for establishing the logical
partition configuration of a storage unit which has the
transfer-destination logical partition function. The information prepared
by the conversion is transmitted to the transfer-destination storage unit
and the configuration with the transfer-source logical configuration set
as the transfer-destination logical partition is updated in the
transfer-destination storage unit. After the migration of the
configuration, the data is migrated using a remote copy function of
carrying out data copy between the transfer-source and
transfer-destination logical devices.