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DS Open Application Programming Interface
The 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 help you to use existing SRM
applications and infrastructures. The DS Open API can also be used to automate
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.
Note: The DS Open API supports the IBM System Storage DS8000 series and is an
embedded component.
You can implement the DS Open API without using a separate middleware
application, like the IBM System Storage Common Information Model (CIM) agent,
which 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 is used by storage management
applications to communicate with a storage unit.
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication facilitates the use and
management of Copy Services functions such as the remote mirror and copy
functions (Metro Mirror and Global Mirror) and the point-in-time function
(FlashCopy).
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication provides a graphical interface
that you can use for configuring and managing Copy Services functions across the
DS8000, DS6000
™
, and Enterprise Storage Server
®
(ESS) storage units. These
data-copy services maintain consistent copies of data on source volumes that are
managed by Replication Manager.
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication for FlashCopy, Metro Mirror, and
Global Mirror support provides automation of administration and configuration of
these services, operational control (starting, suspending, resuming), Copy Services
tasks, and monitoring and managing of copy sessions.
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication is an option of the Tivoli Storage
Productivity Center for Replication software program. If you are licensed for Copy
Services functions, you can use Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
to manage your data copy environment.
Notes:
1.
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication operations can now
be performed using the DS8000 hardware management console (HMC).
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