A volume management system includes a management server which includes a
memory and a processor, the memory stores an area level indicative of
released or unreleased, a priority level indicative of a priority for
establishing a redundancy, a use status indicative of used or unused, and
a state indicative of presence or absence of redundancies, for each of
logic areas of a storage device. When there is a logic area whose
capacity is insufficient among the logic areas of the storage, the
arrangement performs a number of operations to allocate capacities of
other logic areas to a logic area whose capacity is insufficient.