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SAN Simulator Release Notes

This document contains information about known problems and limitations for the SAN Simulator in Aperi R0.4.

In addition to this document, you should read the following documents before using the SAN Simulator:

• Installation Guide
• User's Guide

All Aperi R0.4 documentation is available at: http://www.eclipse.org/aperi/documentation/

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Contents

• 1. SAN Simulator Overview
• 2. Known limitations
• 3. Joining the Aperi community
• Notices

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1. SAN Simulator Overview

The SAN Simulator is a tool that enables you to simulate a SAN environment through software. You can create a SAN configuration, add devices to the SAN, create arbirtrary connections between devices, and remove connections between devices. Using this tool to create a simulated SAN environment can help when you:

• Have limited or no access to hardware and software when developing and tesing SRM applications
• Have "off-line"' access to SAN devices without impacting the performance of the real network (such as the SNIA lab or any SAN in the world).
• Need to perform "what-if" analysis before you plan to extend or reconfigure your SAN

The SAN Simulator provides an increase in productivity and efficiency for Aperi development and testing by removing the dependence on device availability.

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2. Known limitations

To view a list of known issues in Aperi and SAN Simulator, or to file your own bug report or enhancement request, please visit: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/

• Live CIMOM snapshots of the following devices have been tested successfully with this version of the Storage Network Simulator:
  
  
  • IBM Storage Subsystems : ESS, DS6000, DS8000
  • Engenio IBM DS4000
  • Brocade FC Switch
    
    

  Any testing in addition to these devices would be considered a valuable contribution to the Aperi effort and we recommend recording a Bugzilla at https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/.

  Note: The Storage Network Simulator snapshot mechanism is CIM compliant, therefore the snapshot process is not limited to any vendor-specific CIM agent. However, intricacies of new Managed Object Format (MOF) files have to be handled for new devices when they appear in the field for a successful MOF compilation in a snapshot process.

  Please notify the Aperi team if you encounter an error in MOF compilation. This will enable the Aperi team to add support for the device.

• Extrinsic methods (for example, CreateOrModifyElementFromStoragePool, CreateZone) are not supported in the snapshot and configuration implementation of SAN Simulator. This feature is planned for a future release.
  
  
• Zoning configuration for the Brocade Fabric (ZoneSet, Zone, ZoneMember) is not supported in the configuration based implementation of SAN Simulator. This feature is planned for a future release.
  
  
• The current version of the SAN Simulator allows connectivity between ports of the same fabric only for Switch to Switch connectivity. You cannot connect ports across different fabrics.

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3. Joining the Aperi community

If you would like to join the Aperi Community, we would welcome your participation. Please visit our project website at http://www.eclipse.org/aperi and sign up for the aperi-dev and aperi-news mailing lists. Please get involved by and telling us what you'd like to do with Aperi.

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Notices

Aperi Storage Manager (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 2007. All Rights Reserved
All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution, and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html.