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

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

[Joel Becker]

[ 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.

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Joel Becker
Principal Software Developer
Oracle
E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com
Phone: (650) 506-8127


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"People with narrow minds usually have broad tongues."

Joel Becker
Principal Software Developer
Oracle
E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com
Phone: (650) 506-8127

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

[Mike Christie]

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?

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

[Joel Becker]

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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 want to do."
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Joel Becker
Principal Software Developer
Oracle
E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com
Phone: (650) 506-8127

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

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:05:40 -0700
Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> 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.

The source code is already released or will be shortly?

I'd like to know what operations exactly the interface provide (lun
create, delete, snapshot, clone, etc?).

I also like to write a plugin for tgt scsi target implementation
(http://stgt.sourceforge.net/).