Solution Accelerators
PARTNERSHIPS
- SNIA: development of SMI-S conformance test suite – 1.0>1.0.2>1.1 and other projects
- Symantec Technology Enabled Partner - enabled partner for inter-operability services
FRAMEWORKS
Reusable Components:iSCSI Stack
Target Audience
Storage Networking vendors engaged in developing or enhancing iSCSI-based products and solutions
Standards Compliant
- Conformance to IETF RFC3720
- Demonstrated for interoperability at N+I Spring 2003 by N+ I Engineers
- HCL's iSCSI stack has well designed interfaces between SCSI and iSCSI. This stack has been designed with an abstraction layer, making it easily portable to any OS including RTOS for hardware implementation.
iSCSI Stack is interoperable with
- Initiators: Microsoft, Cisco, Intel, IOL
- Targets: Network Appliance, IOL
- Linux (RedHat, version 2.4 kernel)
- iSCSI Initiator & Target
- Windows 2000
- iSCSI Target
FC Stack
iSCSI-FCP gateway stack
Target Audience
Storage Solution Vendors engaged in developing or enhancing multiprotocol SAN switches, routers, gateways, application directors and virtualization devices.
Standards Compliant
- Conformance with iSCSI standards.
- Supports
- Mapping multiple nodes on FC-SAN
- Multiple iSCSI target names
- Mapping action/response transitions between iSCSI and FC-SAN
- Uses SNIA's FC management API and iSCSI management APIs to interface with the FCP and iSCSI HBAs.
- Command mapping engine explicitly maps SCSI commands to FC and vice versa between iSCSI and FC nodes.
- Management interfaces to enter protocol mapping parameters.
Frameworks
OrthOS framework, a high throughput Architecture for I/O intensive application
SMI-S Provider Development Framework SMI-S Client
A generic framework for the provider development, which will have reusable components to reduce the development time and provide a high level view of how it can be implemented.
Target Audience
- SAN device / sub system vendors seeking SMI-S compliance for their products Integrated Services
- SMI-S Provider development, sustaining and testing
- Porting and testing for different WBEM implementations
- SMI-S client development and testing
- Enhancement of SMI-S 1.0 providers to 1.1
- SMI-S Provider Development Framework enables vendors to reduce time-to-market SMI-S compliant products. These products ensure interoperability and simplified management of enterprise SAN environments.
Development Framework
- FC-HBA Provider
- iSCSI Provider
Simulators
Storage Simulator
Target Audience
Storage solution vendors seeking faster, cost-effective and customizable test environment for:
- Development testing
- Performance testing
- Proof-of-concept testing
- Deployment testing
- Validation
- Cost-effective simulation environment: Eliminates the need to set up an expensive test environment.
- Customizable test environment: Instant loading of saved configuration, and dynamic changing of configuration to suit any requirement.
- Multi-user: Accommodates multiple hosts at the same time.
- Increased test coverage: Supports injecting errors and faults that are not possible with real hardware.
Target Audience
- OS vendors planning to launch OSD-compliant file systems and drivers
- Backup software vendors planning to develop software for OSD drives
- Disk vendors planning to build OSD drives
- GUI to configure SCSI and OSD LUNs and create mapping
- OSD-SCSI Command Interpreter
- SCSI Engine
- FC Target mode driver
- Block encapsulation layer
- File System driver
- Virtualization layer to support various LUN configuration
- Support to create, set, get operations on OSD-defined and user-defined attribute pages associated with objects
- Explorer view of the Virtual File System laid by the Initiator on the OSD device
- Supports all file system/file operations
- Optional graphical window showing underlying SCSI OSD CDB activity for all file operations
Test Tools: DiskVer - Multi-threaded traffic generation tool FCDiskVer - Multi-threaded traffic generation tool Test Automation Framework iSCSI Conformance Test Suite Test-SCSI Test-FC
