Adic Management Console; Access Security Capabilities; Virtual Private San™ Option - ADIC Scalar 100 User Manual

ADIC Management Console

The ADIC Management Console offers full capability for remote management,
configuration, and event notification. Each ADIC Gateway has internal Event
Logging, Event Analysis, and periodic Health Checks for predictive failure
analysis. All of these management, configuration, and notification capabilities are
accessible via standard SNMP protocol for use with major network management
applications. The ADIC Management Console offers Java application software for
the ADIC Gateway remote management and configuration.

Access Security Capabilities

The ADIC Gateway is aware of the hosts and devices that are attached to its
interfaces and provides access security between hosts and devices. Access
security between different hosts and devices is a requirement for multi-initiator
SAN solutions. Using the ADIC Management Console, you can partition the SAN
for different levels of access and performance.
Virtual Private SAN™ Option
VPS technology enables Storage Area Networks with multiple users to share the
same connectivity channels or pipes to access the same or different storage
elements or resources. Therefore, multiple virtual private connections can be
created on the same storage networking infrastructure.
VPS is a Virtual Private connection or channel between a storage element and the
user of that element in a Storage Area Network. Virtual Private SAN is created by
a method of Access Security that manages the access between an Initiator (user,
host, system, ..) to Target/LUN (Device, Disk or Tape, ...) and also protects and
preserves such permission.
An optional automatic host registration service that sends periodic host status
information to VPS is provided.
VPS is an optional software capability for the ADIC Gateway that requires a
license key to be enabled.
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• VPS is completely host independent and requires no software
components on the host.
• VPS has no interface dependencies and supports Fibre Channel,
SCSI or any other SAN interface.
• VPS supports SAN connectivity/fan-out products such as hubs
and switches.
• VPS is independent of the storage elements and requires no
change in legacy or new storage devices.
Configuration Support