StorageUnificationTool
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== other examples == | == other examples == | ||
- | + | * star, cpio, rsync | |
- | + | * Smit on AIX | |
- | + | * zpool and zfs on Solaris | |
== requirements == | == requirements == |
Revision as of 01:08, 16 August 2007
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description
- A easy-to-use graphical tool that can manage storage devices and pools, and file systems
- Includes a wizard (like Roxio or Toast) that can start different applications depending on what is to be accomplished
- Make it easy to create, manage, and back up very large data storage pools
- Make it easy to export and secure data
- Provide a framework for thinking about and documenting data management
use cases
Handles storage devices
- system and device health
- automatic and manual setting of I/O parameters
- installation, configuration, transport setup
- device error reporting and analysis
Handles storage pools
- administers RAID volumes and LVs
- set up hot remote pools
- identify hot swap spare LUNs
Handles file systems
- creating
- mounting
- tuning
- resizing
- deleting
Handles NFS administration
- client: automated server discovery,
- client: autofs configuration
- server: automatic export of file systems
Handles data management
- set up automated storage hierarchies
- one-time or periodic data replication
- one-time or periodic backup
- restore and disaster recovery
other examples
- star, cpio, rsync
- Smit on AIX
- zpool and zfs on Solaris
requirements
<outline text="Need a good name for it (branding!)"/> <outline text="Must tie together the disparate, separately maintained, and undocumented masses of storage utilities that exist on Linux"/> <outline text="And provide new tools that don't already exist"/> <outline text="Emulates the nice model provided by zpool/zfs"/> <outline text="Management"> <outline text="Do we want some kind of permanent storage management (disk/CF/optical/tape)? Device maintenance? Ways to drive smartctl, hdparm, or other testing?"/> <outline text="Do we want some kind of storage pool management (manage LVs, manage pools [for fs's that understand them]?"/> <outline text="Do we want some kind of file system management (create, check, remove, expand)? Managing /etc/fstab, /etc/exports, and the automounters? Disk usage analyzer (boabab)?"/> <outline text="Do we want some kind of data management (replication/migration/backup/mirroring)?"/> </outline>
major architecture
<outline text="Need to look at tools for constructing nice GUIs on Linux"> <outline text="Ask on #nc?"/> <outline text="Some web searching"/> <outline text="Look at Python web site: again, Python might be best to prototype"> <outline text="Python seems to have plenty of options"/> </outline> </outline> <outline text="Let's start small"> <outline text="Add a GUI to fdisk, mdadm"/> <outline text="Try constructing a GUI for managing fstab or exports"/> <outline text="Build a GUI for starting other applications"/> </outline>
operation
random ideas
<outline text="Start simple -- admin /etc/fstab or run smartctl"/> <outline text="Need place to collect ideas publicly"> <outline text="calpg wiki"/> <outline text="external wiki"/> <outline text="irc -- use #linuxfs, or something else"/> <outline text="mailing list?"/> </outline> <outline text="Python!"> <outline text="Found some interesting pythings that could help"> <outline text="module that can do stuff with devices"/> <outline text="pyparted to deal with partition management"/> <outline text="pylibacl for... well, you know"/> </outline> </outline>
free-form notes
Would be nice to have some kind of wizard-like user space tool that would allow virtualized data management on Linux.
Need to scope the requirements.
Do we want some kind of permanent storage management (disk/CF/optical)? Device maintenance? Ways to drive SMART, or other testing?
Do we want some kind of storage pool management (manage LVs, manage pools [for fs's that understand them])?
Do we want some kind of file system managment (create, check, remove, expand)? Managing /etc/fstab, /etc/exports, and the automounters? boabab (disk usage analyzer)
Do we want some kind of data management (replicate/migrate/backup/mirror)?
So I think we can start small. Take a common TUI utility or two (fdisk or mdadm) and try constructing a GUI around it.