Bug#649483: ITP: libstoragemgmt -- library for storage management
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@debian.org>
* Package name : libstoragemgmt
Version : git master
Upstream Author : Tony Asleson <tasleson@redhat.com>
* URL : http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/libstoragemgmt/
* License : LGPL
Programming Lang: C++, Python
Description : library for storage management
library for a vendor agnostic open source storage application
programming interface (API) that will allow management of storage
arrays.
Planned features:
Plug-in framework to facilitate storage array addition/integration
Allow proprietary plug-ins (open source encouraged)
Strong configurable security (TBD)
Username/password, client/server certificates
Interrogate/Query
Capabilities, limits, versioning
LUN listings
Initiator listing
Volume/Storage pool listing (Where to carve new logical disks)
Manage logical disks (LUNS)
creation (including thin provisioning)
deletion
re-sizing
access control (LUN Masking)
cloning/mirroring
snapshots
Command line interface for exercising API
Python bindings
Future features:
Monitoring and alerting (asynchronous event notification)
Network attached file systems (NFS, CIFS)
Integrated support for LIO target (http://linux-iscsi.org)
Management of SAN switches
Portable, availability for Linux, Solaris and Windows
Java, Perl, Ruby bindings
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