Wahoo!!! This is great to see.
+1
Owen, I'll serve as your project facilitator. I'll keep this proposal
open until 12-June for further comments. At that time I'll work with you
on the next steps.
Thanks for proposing this piece of work!
--jc
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Jeff Cheeney | OpenSolaris Storage Community |
http://opensolaris.org/os/storage | http://blogs.sun.com/icedawn
On 06/05/08 21:36, Owen P. Hall III wrote:
> Common Array Manager Project
>
> Purpose
>
> Provides management software to OpenSolaris for configuring and monitoring
> block storage arrays.
>
> Sponsoring Community Groups
>
> Storage
>
> Initial Project Team
>
> Owen Hall
> James Kremer
>
> Project Description
>
> Common Array Manager (CAM) is disk storage device management software that
> currently ties together Sun's midrange family of disk storage systems (the
> Sun StorageTek Modular Arrays) in an administrator friendly way. The software
> includes a web application, currently runnable from the Sun Java Web Console,
> allowing the user to manage their systems from any browser and a command line
> client which provides a facility for automating and scripting management
> operations and tasks. More information about the product and its features can
> be found on the product page here --
> http://www.sun.com/storagetek/management_software/resource_management/cam.
>
> The software has been designed with a plug-in architecture. Adding support
> for new devices is matter of implementing a set of interfaces in the emerging
> CAM Device SDK. Utilizing this design it is envisioned that CAM can be made
> to manage other disk systems that are both hardware and software based. This
> can potentially include other products in the Sun StorageTek Modular Array
> line as well as upcoming array and disk systems planned by Sun or other
> manufacturers of storage systems.
>
> The main development focus of this project will be to continue to refine and
> enhance the core application framework, application user interfaces and
> device SDK. Also, members of the project would be asked to consider writing
> and contributing new plug-ins for CAM . The goal would be to allow CAM to
> evolve into a brand neutral disk management application. One idea for a
> plug-in we have discussed is an SMI-S client-based plug-in that would provide
> the foundation for allowing CAM to manage any device that has an SMI-S
> provider.
>
> The tentative roadmap for the project is as follows:
>
> 1. Make Solaris binaries/packages from the latest release of the software
> available.
> 2. Release the CAM SDK along with sample plug-ins.
> 3. Open source the core/base application source code
> 4. Open source existing product plug-ins where feasible
>
> The current software is released for multiple OS platforms: Solaris, Linux
> and Windows. We desire to keep CAM host platform neutral but do seek to make
> it run well and have tight integration with the OpenSolaris platform. We see
> CAM as enhancing OpenSolaris' storage management software stack making
> OpenSolaris a good choice as a management host platform.
>
> Project Needs
>
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> SCM Management
> Discussion List
>
>
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