Storage system and storage management system

A storage management method in which a system manager manages the memory resources within a system comprising a plurality of channel control units, a plurality of disk control units, shared memory, cache memory, a physical disk connected to said disk control units, and connecting parts that connect said plurality of channel control units, said plurality of disk control units, said shared memory, and said cache memory;

• and partition managers assigned for every partition unit of said memory resource manage said partition units, said method comprising the steps of:
• modifying the configuration of said memory resource in accordance with the contents of the settings set by said system manager or said partition managers;
• creating history data which correlates the identifier of said partition unit in which the configuration of the memory resources has been modified, said setting contents, and the identification data of said manager;
• and
• providing all of the history data to said system manager, but providing to said partition manager only the history data that is made by the partition manager itself, from among the history data,.