Scalable Storage Management Architecture for Common Information Model/Web-Based Enterprise Management Environments

Abstract

Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) is independent of platforms and managed resources so that it can used to unify storage management. WBEM consists of three components. Common Information Model (CIM) is the main component which utilizes a common data format, language and methodology for collecting and describing storage resources. xml CIM encoding defines the way that represents the CIM classes and instances by XML elements. CIM Operations over HTTP makes CIM operations in an open and standardized environment based on HTTP. In this paper, we propose a novel storage architecture that enhances efficiency of storage management under CIM/WBEM environments namely Scalable Storage Management Architecture (SSMA). SSMA is developed based on OpenPegasus. In addition, SSMA has better delay performance than traditional proxy CIMOM.