From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Christie Subject: Re: [LSF/VM TOPIC] Generic SAN Management via Oracle VM Storage Connect Plugin. Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:52:32 -0500 Message-ID: <4BB3FC60.1050405@cs.wisc.edu> References: <20100401010539.GF28680@mail.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sabe.cs.wisc.edu ([128.105.6.20]:58869 "EHLO sabe.cs.wisc.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752003Ab0DABsd (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:48:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100401010539.GF28680@mail.oracle.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: lsf10-pc@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On 03/31/2010 08:05 PM, Joel Becker wrote: > [ I was asked to Cc: linux-scsi, so here it is ] > > > [Topic] > Generic SAN Management via Oracle VM Storage Connect Plugin. > > [Abstract] > Managing storage in the SAN often requires using a different tool for > each vendor in the environment. Oracle has defined a plugin interface > for SAN management, the (sorry about the mouthful) Oracle VM Storage > Connect Plugin. The important part is that many of our storage partners > have agreed to not only help, but actively author plugins for their > storage hardware. > > 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. > 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?