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DS6000 Interfaces
This section describes the following interfaces:
v IBM TotalStorage DS Storage Manager
v
DS Open application programming interface
v DS Command-Line Interface (CLI)
IBM TotalStorage DS Storage Manager
The IBM TotalStorage DS Storage Manager is an interface that is used to perform
logical configurations, service, copy services management, and for firmware
upgrades.
The DS Storage Manager software must be installed on a computer (management
console) that you provide.
You can install the DS Storage Manager as either a GUI or in unattended (silent
mode) for the Windows operating systems. The unattended (silent) installation
option allows you to run the installation program unattended. Use this method of
installation to customize a response file and issue a command from a command
prompt window. The response file is a template on the IBM TotalStorage Storage
Manager CD.
The DS Storage Manager can be accessed from any location that has network
access using a Web browser. It offers you the following choices that are available
with the applicable license management code:
Offline configuration
This feature allows you to create and save logical configurations and apply
them to an online DS6000 series. This offline configuration tool is installed
on your server and can be used for the configuration of a DS6000 series at
initial installation or for reconfiguration activities.
Online configuration
This feature provides you with real-time configuration support.
Express configuration
This feature provides the simplest and fastest configuration method.
Copy services
This feature allows you to process copy services functions.
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 RAID5
and RAID10 volume spaces. The DS Open API also enables Copy Services
functions such as FlashCopy and Remote Mirror and Copy (formally known as
peer-to-peer remote copy).
The IBM TotalStorage DS Open API helps integrate DS 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 TotalStorage DS
Storage Manager web-based interface and the DS command-line interface.
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