Joe, I like the JIRO site. It allows progress to be made 24 x 7 for SAN management to be built upon the infrastructure of Q/A/SUNW T3s...
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Originally posted by joenm:
How can Jiro help our company? What advantage would Jiro give to our RAID products?...How will I answer? Please give me some example applications of Jiro to be applied to our RAID products. Thank you very much!
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If you are only in the business of RAID devices, you must interact with various pieces in a SAN or NAS environment....switches, routers, etc....
By providing a management facade for your RAID device, developers will be able to create policy based solutions which interact with your device over a network, in conjunction with switches and routers also available on the network.
The end game is to enable access points for as many types of devices as possible via the network. Then build policies that sit on the network and manage these devices.
The example and working demo we had at JavaOne used:
- Ancor switch
- Sun RAID device
- Veritas Volume Manager and File System
- Storage Pool Policy
- Infinite Disk Policy
As storage filled up on a volume, the Infinite Disk policy requested space from the storage pool. Upon receiving it, the policy sent the storage to the Veritas Volume Manager to expand the file system for the client.
The Storage Pool maintained free RAID devices on the Ancor switch. If space was requested which was not available on an already available volume, the storage pool "zoned in" a disk on the Ancor switch making the RAID device availble to the local system.
All of those pieces, RAID device, Ancor Switch, Veritas Volume Manager, had Jiro management facades written for them by the respective companies.
As Jiro matures, more facades should become available, and hopefully a broad variety of policies to manage those facades (performance policies, debug policies, SAN management and topology, infinite disk, etc...)
Perhaps that answers your question?
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Paul B. Monday
Imation - Software Development Lab, Rochester, MN
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joenm
Junior Member posted 06-29-2000 06:34 PM
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Thank you Mr. Monday!
I think your answer is a lot of help.
So, basing from your answer and my initial investigative readings, in order to really understand how Jiro works (enough that I could present it to my manager), I must understand the following points:
1) SAN or NAS environment
2) Jiro Management Facade
3) Policies (e.g. Infinite Disk, Storage Pool)
4) Jini
Please feel free to add some more topics that I need to research on if you think this is not enough.
Again thank you very much!
Joen Moreno
This is a good explantion of why SUNW may be able to sell these t3s to the Internet data centers; It automates Scaling of storage. |
