Host environment information of the host is acquired from an environment
management section that manages the host environment information, a
designation of a volume condition constituting a condition related to the
logical volume is received from the user, a logical volume that conforms
to the designated condition among a plurality of logical volumes is
sought, an internal path which is a logical path in the storage system is
constructed by allocating the logical volume thus found to any of the
plurality of communication ports, and the acquired host environment
information is allocated to at least one of the communication ports and
logical volumes in the internal path thus constructed.