TY - JOUR
T1 - Policy-based autonomic storage allocation
AU - Devarakonda, Murthy
AU - Chess, David
AU - Whalley, Ian
AU - Segal, Alla
AU - Goyal, Pawan
AU - Sachedina, Aamer
AU - Romanufa, Keri
AU - Lassettre, Ed
AU - Tetzlaff, William
AU - Arnold, Bill
PY - 2003/12/1
Y1 - 2003/12/1
N2 - The goal of autonomic storage allocation is to achieve management of storage resources, including allocation, performance monitoring, and hotspot elimination, by specifying comparatively high-level goals, rather than by means of low-level manual steps. The process of automation should allow specification of policies as administrator specified constraints under which the resources are managed. This paper describes the system design and implementation experiences from a prototype autonomic storage manager being developed in IBM Research. The prototype is being developed for a storage network that includes a SAN switch, an IBM Enterprise Storage Subsystem, and AIX servers. Our early experience from this prototype implementation is that there are a large number of mundane manual steps in storage management and it is feasible to automate them such that the automation is driven by higher-level goals under policy control. However, to manage heterogeneous storage a standard ontology is needed for specification of goals and how to achieve them.
AB - The goal of autonomic storage allocation is to achieve management of storage resources, including allocation, performance monitoring, and hotspot elimination, by specifying comparatively high-level goals, rather than by means of low-level manual steps. The process of automation should allow specification of policies as administrator specified constraints under which the resources are managed. This paper describes the system design and implementation experiences from a prototype autonomic storage manager being developed in IBM Research. The prototype is being developed for a storage network that includes a SAN switch, an IBM Enterprise Storage Subsystem, and AIX servers. Our early experience from this prototype implementation is that there are a large number of mundane manual steps in storage management and it is feasible to automate them such that the automation is driven by higher-level goals under policy control. However, to manage heterogeneous storage a standard ontology is needed for specification of goals and how to achieve them.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0242371070
SN - 0302-9743
VL - 2867
SP - 143
EP - 154
JO - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
JF - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
ER -