International Business Machines Corporation

Pi-Wei Chin

Kaladhar Voruganti

Eric Kevin Butler

Scott Joseph Colbeck

Daniel Graham Douglas

Edward Joseph Gallagher

Benjamin Franklin Yee

A mechanism is provided to automatically retrieve zoning best practices from a centralized repository and to ensure that automatically generated zones do not violate these best practices. A user selects a set of hosts and storage controllers. The user also selects a guidance policy for creating the zone, and also selects a set of validation policies that must be enforced on the zone. If the user selects a guidance policy and a validation policy combination that is incompatible, the mechanism allows the user to change either the selected guidance policy or the set of validation policies. If the user has selected consistent-zoning as a guidance policy, then the mechanism automatically selects a guidance policy that does not violate the known validation policies.

Integrated guidance and validation policy based zoning mechanism

Provided is an article of manufacture, system and method for a management system for using host and storage controller port information to configure paths between a host and storage controller in a network. The management system obtains information on ports on at least one host, at least one storage controller, and at least one fabric over which the host and storage controller ports connect. The management system gathers, for at least one host port and storage controller port, a connection metric and a traffic metric. The management system processes the connection and traffic metrics for the host and storage ports to select at least one host port and at least one storage controller port configures the port pair to provide at least one path enabling the access at least one storage volume managed by the selected storage controller.

Management system for using host and storage controller port information to configure paths between a host and storage controller in a network

Provided is a method for using host and storage controller port information to configure paths between a host and storage controller. Information is gathered on ports on at least one host, ports on at least one storage controller managing access to storage volumes, and at least one fabric over which the at least one host and storage controller ports connect. For at least one host port and storage controller port, information is gathered on a connection metric related to a number of paths in which the port is configured and a traffic metric indicating Input/Output (I/O) traffic at the port. A determination is made of available ports for one host and storage controller that are available to provide paths between one host and storage controller. The connection and traffic metrics for the available host ports are processed to select at least one host port. The connection and traffic metrics for the available storage controller ports are processed to select at least one storage controller port. The at least one selected host and storage controller port pair are configured to provide at least one path enabling the host to communicate with the selected storage controller port to access at least one storage volume managed by the selected storage controller.

Method for using host and storage controller port information to configure paths between a host and storage controller

A user interface construction method () for a web based user interface ('WUI'). A serverhas an HTML template, HTML ResourceBundles, and JAR filescontaining Java ResourceBundles. At run-time, a user will select a language at the browserand a language codewill be transmitted to the server, whereupon the serverwill construct a constructed HTML codefrom the HTML templateand a corresponding HTML ResourceBundle. The constructed HTML code(including Java codeinserts) will then be transmitted to the browseralong with the JAR file containing the Java ResourceBundles

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Pi-Wei Chin