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DS open application programming interface

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IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk

The IBM System Storage DS Open Application Programming Interface (API) is a
nonproprietary storage management client application that supports routine LUN
management activities, such as LUN creation, mapping and masking, and the
creation or deletion of RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 10 volume spaces. The DS Open
API supports these activities through the use of the Storage Management Initiative
Specification (SMI-S), as defined by the Storage Networking Industry Association
(SNIA).
The DS Open API helps integrate configuration management support into storage
resource management (SRM) applications, which allow customers to benefit from
existing SRM applications and infrastructures. The DS Open API also enables the
automation of configuration management through customer-written applications.
Either way, the DS Open API presents another option for managing storage units
by complementing the use of the IBM System Storage DS Storage Manager
web-based interface and the DS command-line interface.
You must implement the DS Open API through the IBM System Storage Common
Information Model (CIM) agent, a middleware application that provides a
CIM-compliant interface. The DS Open API uses the CIM technology to manage
proprietary devices as open system devices through storage management
applications. The DS Open API allows these storage management applications to
communicate with a storage unit.
The DS Open API supports the IBM System Storage DS8000 and the IBM System
Storage DS6000 series, and the IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server. It is
available for the AIX, Linux, and Windows operating system environments and
must be used on storage units that have fibre-channel ports.
IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk (Disk Manager) is a storage
management product that is designed for customers who want to reduce the
complexities and costs of storage management, including the management of
SAN-based storage.
The IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center allows you to manage storage area
networks and heterogeneous storage from a single console. It lets you manage
network storage components that are based on the Storage Management Initiative
Specification, including
v IBM SAN Volume Controller
v IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server (ESS)
v IBM System Storage disk storage units (DS4000, DS6000, and DS8000 series)
Disk Manager can do the following performance functions:
v Collect and store performance data and provides alerts
v Generate both standard and custom performance reports with the ability to
graph data from those reports
v Help optimize storage allocation
v Provide volume contention analysis and recommend intelligent placement of
new volumes
Through the use of data collection, threshold settings, and performance reports,
performance can be monitored for the ESS, DS4000, DS6000, and DS8000, SAN
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