Jiro and Resource Management Possibilities

The Jiro core enables resource management of the capacity, performance, and availability of data storage. Storage can be managed to a Storage Service Level, elevating the view of storage to where users, not the administrators, think about it. Backup and archival policies can be used to automate migration of data to a tape library. Measurements of capacity and performance characteristics are combined with availability policies, and the operator will be alerted of any problems. Ultimately storage subsystems will be reconfigured automatically.

Jiro provides the platform on which SLAs can be established. At present, Jiro does not include a general purpose rule script-based policy engine. Policies are embedded ...

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