Scalability Support for SMI-S with Chord

The storage management initiative specification (SMI-S) has been proposed for years to standardize the management of storage resources in storage area network (SAN). However, current management architecture mainly focuses on local area management. In this paper, we propose a scalable management architecture based on the integration of SMI-S and Chord. Meanwhile, Chord can only deal with exact query, the query of storage resources is significantly more complex. To deal with this problem, we further improve our architecture with a scalable blind search method - recursive partition search (RPS). Experiments show RPS is an effective approach for storage resource range query in the case that the Chord overlay network is not very large.