Re: [aperi-dev] New contribution request: SAN Simulator

[Tom Guinane <guinane@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, that is a relief. 
Simona, the simulator you tried is different
than the one being requested  for contribution to Aperi.  The
alphaWorks simulator was developed by a team in China.  The one proposed
for Aperi was developed at the IBM Almaden Research Lab is San Jose.  It
simulates a broad product base, and the development team has implemented
a number of usability improvements to assist the user with installation,
setup and use.

Cheers,   Tom
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Tom Guinane     Aperi Project Lead     IBM    
408-284-4795     guinane@xxxxxxxxxx

Simona Constantin <simona_constantin@xxxxxxxxxx>

05/07/2007 10:25 AM

To	Tom Guinane/San Jose/IBM@IBMUS
cc	aperi-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx, aperi-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject	Re: [aperi-dev] New contribution request: SAN Simulator

Hello Tom, 

I might have been talking about another simulator.

I have tried IBM SMI-S-Based Storage Device Simulator from http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/smis_simulator/,
which is based on Open Pegasus. 
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Simona Constantin
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Tom Guinane <guinane@xxxxxxxxxx>
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05/06/2007 12:27 AM

Please respond to
Aperi Development <aperi-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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Subject	[aperi-dev] New contribution request: SAN Simulator

We have a request for another code contribution.  The IBM Research
folks have been working on a storage area network (SAN) simulator tool,
which can be used for testing storage resource management solutions, and
they would like to contribute it to the Aperi Storage Management project.
  

This 'SAN Simulator' simulates a storage area network environment through
software. The simulator will allow the user to create a SAN configuration,
add devices to the SAN, create arbitrary connections between devices and
remove connections between devices. Since most devices today expose their
services through a CIMOM, the simulator will create CIM instances based
on user specifications. The simulator will generate various profiles defined
by the SNIA.  The SAN Simulator would add support in the test area
of our Aperi Storage Management Project and would allow us to test against
various vendors devices (that have their model changes incorporated into
the simulator).   

The simulator uses a CIM/SMI-S standard model.  There is a database
with a very simple schema to store the management information of a device.
There are two approaches in which CIM based information of a device is
persisted into the database: 1) generated by the SAN Simulator based on
user specification or 2) copied into the database via the snapshot mechanism
of SAN Simulator.  Once the data is available in the database, it
is manipulated in the database based on CIM requests. These providers are
pluggable into any popular open source CIMOM.  

The SAN Simulator and the providers are written in Java.  The CIMOM
used is the Sun Java WBEM CIMOM.  Either DB2 or Derby can be used
as the database.  A tool is also included to assist the user install
and drive through the steps.  It is approximately 10K lines of code.

Does anyone in the community have an objection to this contribution?  I
will bring it up for discussion/ review at our regular Aperi status call
on Monday.  If there are no issues with this contribution by end of
business on Wednesday, May 9th, the Eclipse process for contributing code
will be started.   

Cheers,   Tom
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