In the configuration of multiple (M units of) disk subsystems shared from multiple (N units of) hosts, having an exclusive control command that limits access to all disk subsystems temporarily is provided, using this exclusive control command, configuration information of all multiple disk subsystems, for example, performance and a setting change, are acquired in point of time series and stored in a management server database ("configuration information database"), then managed in a centralized manner, a function that associates the file that the application uses with the "configuration information database" is provided using a function that detects the position on the logical unit, and a means that can retrieve the modified contents of the system configuration and time as keys is provided in the "configuration information database".