DocumentCode :
1015820
Title :
SANchk: SQL-based SAN configuration checking
Author :
Gencay, Eray ; Sinz, Carsten ; Küchlin, Wolfgang ; Schäfer, Thorsten
Author_Institution :
Wilhelm Schickard Inst., Tubingen Univ., Tubingen
Volume :
5
Issue :
2
fYear :
2008
fDate :
6/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage :
91
Lastpage :
104
Abstract :
Storage Area Networks (SANs) connect groups of storage devices to servers over fast interconnects. An important challenge lies in managing the complexity of the resulting massive SAN configurations. Policy-based validation using new logical frameworks has been proposed earlier as a solution to this configuration problem. SANchk offers a new solution that uses standard technologies such as SQL, XML, and Java, to implement a rule-based configuration checker. SANchk works as a light-weight extension to the relational databases of storage management systems; current support includes IBM´s TPC and the open source Aperi storage manager. Some five dozen best practices rules for SAN configuration are implemented in SANchk, many of them with configurable parameters. Empirical results with several commercial SANs show that the approach is viable in practice.
Keywords :
Java; SQL; XML; formal specification; relational databases; storage area networks; IBM TPC; Java; SANchk; SQL-based SAN configuration checking; XML; open source Aperi storage manager; policy-based validation; relational databases; rule-based configuration checker; storage area networks; storage management systems; Best practices; Fault diagnosis; File servers; Java; Network servers; Relational databases; Scalability; Storage area networks; Switches; XML; decision support systems; knowledge based systems; network fault diagnosis; query languages; relational databases; storage area networks;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Network and Service Management, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
1932-4537
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/TNSM.2008.021102
Filename :
4694134
Link To Document :
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