HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform SMI-S User Guide (5697-0209, April 2010)

1 Storage Virtualizer Profile
Profile introduction
The VSM server supports the Storage Virtualizer Profile version 1.4 which models the VSM server as
a system capable of exposing virtual devices aggregated from back-end arrays present on the SAN.
In this profile, only the Fabric Agent Architecture is considered.
The following profiles are related to this one:
• Server
• Profile Registration
• FC Target and Initiator Ports
• Masking and Mapping Profile
• Indications
• Block Services/Thin Provisioning
• Extent Composition
• Cascading
• Physical Package
• Multiple Computer System
• Storage Server Asymmetry
• Job Control
• Copy Services
• Replication Services with Migration vendor extension
• Device Credentials
Functional description
The Storage Virtualizer Profile models the fundamental devices of the virtualizer. Additional profiles
implement specific model details and manipulation of elements managed by the virtualizer. Below is
a list of related profiles and their model enhancement capabilities (henceforth referred to as component
profiles):
• Block Services Package: Provides a service for organizing back-end arrays modeled by the Storage
Virtualizer profile into storage pools and virtual disks. In VSM terms, this profile manages stripe
sets, storage pools, and virtual disks in an SVSP domain.
• Thin Provisioning Profile: Provides for management of thinly provisioned virtual disks. In this imple-
mentation, the profile documentation is integrated with the Block Services profile.
• Physical Package: Models the physical stripe set and product information. In VSM terms, the VSM
server hardware and products are surfaced.
• Extent Composition: Models details of storage components' mappings. In VSM terms, the segments
of virtual disks and pools are mapped as ranges of primordial and composite extents.
• Multiple Computer System: Models the redundant VSM servers, and redundant Data Path Modules,
in an SVSP domain.
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