A method for storage management is provided which displays the materials
on which it is determined which of the thin provisioning volume or the
logical unit (LU) is to be used for storage promotion. The method is
executed in a computer system having one or more host computers, one or
more storage subsystems, and a management computer. The storage subsystem
includes a physical disk and a disk controller. The disk controller
provides the host computer with the thin provisioning volume. The
management computer obtains the allocated capacity from the disk
controller and the host-recognized capacity from the host computer. By
subtracting the obtained allocated capacity from the host-recognized
capacity, the management computer calculates an improved capacity. By
dividing the calculated improved capacity by the obtained host-recognized
capacity, the management computer calculates an improvement ratio and
displays the calculated improvement ratio.