5.1. Generic Requirements for SAN Management
After the SAN has been designed and built, the administrator will need to be able to manage all the equipment now associated with the SAN. There are three major areas of management that need to be considered:
controlling
monitoring
servicing
Control in the sense of SAN management refers to the ability to modify the state of the SAN resources. For example:
configuring a disk array
assigning LUN associations
setting levels of security
SAN management control must be able to provide heterogeneous node support. Storage products used in today’s networking environments are likely to be from different manufacturers, but must work together on the SAN. One of the purposes of the SAN, after all, is to pool resources ...
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