Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] [ATTEND] Storage management (API & Library)

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On 01/23/2012 05:21 PM, Tony Asleson wrote:
> On 01/21/2012 08:57 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
[ .. ]
>> The second might be what would it take to get vendors interested in
>> doing the array plugin glue.
> 
> By providing:
> * Permissive license (LGPL)
> * Easy to use out of process plug-in support to allow proprietary
> plug-ins (IPC is abstracted)
> * Language agnostic plug-in support (initial support is C and python)
> 
> We are hoping we can get hardware vendors interested in providing their
> own plug-ins.  If anyone has additional ideas, we would certainly like
> to discuss them.
> 
The various hardware vendors already have the means of managing their
arrays, in most cases also providing a CLI.
I would be hoping we could draft the API support such that we can
use the existing tools, without the need of special plug-ins.

Cheers,

Hannes
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