Storage Area Network Management Control System Research And Design

With the widely use of Internet/Intranet, and with the highly growth of the information technology, people have more and more requirement on the data storage. But the traditional storage system can't meet the need of the requirement on good dependability, expandability and security for Enterprise user.The storage system on SAN (Storage Area Network) has the advancement of the traditional storage system, and makes highly progress for the performance of network based on its fiber channel and disk array. At the same time, SAN makes it reliable that the data storage can be managed assembly, and this is beneficial to the shared use. SAN can apply storage resource abundantly and quickly, and own its wonderful management functions, so it becomes the ideal storage manage and control module.The investigate content of this article is the manage and control parts of SAN (Storage Area Network) .SAN needs a efficient management system, which should have the ability of checking the malfunction about to happen from the data provided by network or storage equipment. So the abort can be prevented ahead of time.The storage managing control system (SMCS), which is developed by us, co-operated with a foreign company, is based on SAN. It is a management configuration system with complete functions. It provides with abilities of detecting broken-down of network devices and separating automatically, data management, storage resources management, security management and file management.Now, the SMCS system has been put into market. On the condition, this article sums up the research and outcome of the author.