Re: [Xen-cim] How can I use xen-CIM?

[Gareth S Bestor <bestor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you be more specific as to what
you mean by "storage management"? The Xen-CIM providers today
allow you to add/remove vbds to/from a DomU config, and have some rudimentary
methods to discover backing storage on the host system, but otherwise there's
no detailed 'storage' instrumentation, like creating LUNs, etc. 

Please note the Xen-CIM providers are
only intended to instrument the *virtualization* side of the story. To
fully manage a virtualization environment you are probably going to want
a suite of host-side CIM instrumentation to manage the actual physical
resources on the host system, ie the backing resource which are then 'virtualized'
to individual guests. There's a whole bunch of regular CIM providers out
there, both Open Source and proprietary, for instrumenting regular host
resource (processors, memory, SMIS storage, ...) that you can use to hook
up to the Xen CIM providers to manage the host-side. I might suggest looking
at the OMC project (http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/OMC).

Storage virtualization modelling is
still a work-in-progress in the DMTF SVPC workgroup; once a clearer picture
with MOFs and Profiles mature from this effort the Xen CIM providers will
start implementing more detailed instrumentation for it. If you'd like
to contribute to either effort, we're always looking for volunteers! :-)

- Gareth

Dr. Gareth S. Bestor
IBM Linux Technology Center
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"Ashit Kumar" <Ashit_Kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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03/06/2007 09:12 AM

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Subject	[Xen-cim] How can I use xen-CIM?

Hi, 
Can anyone tell me that how can I use the Xen-CIM provider  for my
Storage management? 
Basically I want some guidelines to get the xen-CIM and use it for Managing
the Storage.I know it’s still in development but I guess I can use it
for testing.

Otherwise, how can I do it (managing storage) through CLI .I am using XenLinx.
Thanks and regards
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