The invention provides a management system solving the problems of the storage area network shared among plural devices, which was incapable of guaranteeing communication performances due to varied response time, and which required unstable time for accessing volumes.
The storage area network management system comprises plural information processing devices 21, plural storage devices 41, a network with plural network equipments 31 to which is configured a network bandwidth used for communication between information processing devices 21 and storage devices 41, and a management device 1, wherein management device 1 comprises a data storage device 10 for storing a connection structure information and a performance information of paths of the network equipments 31 and a performance information and a capacity information of storage devices 41, and a storage selection means 13 for selecting a storage device 41 for allocating a volume to information processing device 21, and upon allocating a volume to information processing device 21, storage selection means 13 selects, based on the information stored in data storage device 10, storage device 41 fulfilling the performance and the volume capacity required by information processing device 21 and also having on its path network equipment 31 to which is configured the network bandwidth required for the communication with information processing device 21.