Re: [LSF/VM TOPIC] Generic SAN Management via Oracle VM Storage Connect Plugin.

[Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 08:52:32PM -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> >While initiated for the Oracle VM product, I've written a standalone
> >application that uses the plugin, giving a unified view of storage that
> >can be managed from one place.  The program will be open source, of
> >course.  I'm looking for input from storage folks at LFS on what
> >I can do to make this even more useful to general SAN management.
> 

[Sorry I took so long to respond. ]

> Sounds interesting. I have been trying to just get initiator tools
> and libs that work with all hbas. We have a common iscsi tool for
> iscsi initiators and was hoping fcoeadmin could be made more generic
> to work for all fcoe and fc drivers (there is work to make a the
> linux hbaapi lib work for all drivers too).
> 
> Is your interface based on anything like SMI-S, or something new? It
> will work on the initiator and targets, right? Will it work on
> switches?

	It's new.  It's designed by a few folks here at Oracle in
concert with a (surprisingly large) number of our storage partners.
It's not designed as being a generic part of iSCSI.  Rather, it
exists as a common programmatic interface to the SAN/NAS machines'
existing control software.  So it works for both iSCSI and FC when the
vendor has provided plugin support for both.
	There is no provision for switches at this time.  It's about
LUN/file management.

Joel

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Joel Becker
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