EVALUATION SUPPORT METHOD AND EVALUATION SUPPORT APPARATUS

A computer-readable recording medium stores a program that causes a computer to execute an evaluation support process that includes calculating a response time for a read request based on multiplicity and a maximal number of requests wherein the multiplicity is the number of overlaps of read or write processes for a storage apparatus per unit time, and the maximal number of requests is the number of read requests that the storage apparatus processes per unit time; and creating, based on the response time, the maximal number of requests, and a minimal response time for the read request, a response model that represents a response time that has the number of read requests as exponent and exponentially increases as the number of read requests increases.