As many of you know, the community sponsored an Aperi project booth at Storage Networking World in Texas last month, and it was good to talk to more attendees familiar with the project and looking for more information. It's clear the idea of a common management framework is catching on!
If you were at SNW and came by to chat with us, you probably saw a demonstration of the milestone 0.4 release code and saw the new SAN Simulator tool, which was created to help users who don't have a storage area network readily available test their applications with a simulated one.
The community will continue to create tools like this to help users like you become more familiar with the Aperi framework. In fact, over the next few weeks we will be posting some short tutorials that illustrate how to install and configure Aperi, as well as use the SAN Simulator. These and all the developer tools and documentation are available on the Aperi Webpage Website, so if you're looking for information, this is where you'll find it.
Cheers!
Allen
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
APERI Survey Completes
Thanks to those of you that took our survery. I would like to summarize what I see as the results:
(1) Aperi is used to manage your storage environment. The discovery of the storage resources, the topology view,the monitoring and management of the fabric environment are the key features Aperi provides.
(2) The primary reason you would adopt the Aperi code is to improve interoperation with your hardware and software with storage devices.
(3) Some inhibitors/challenges are in the area of ease of installation and configuration. Hopefully some of this concern has been addressed in Aperi R0.4. For R0.4, the install has been significantly improved over R0.3 because of the install wizard and more bundled 3rd-party libraries (as a result, the documentation will also be improved).
(4) Aperi is used in conjunction with other commercial storage manangement applications.
As we define our themes for Aperi R0.5, we will take these key messages as our guidance. I would like us to focus on integration of the commercial applications we use, via Aperi, so as to ensure we provide storage management solution that is easy to install and use. Based on this focus, I propose that the interoperation of our software and hardware solutions be the main driver for our community. We will want to leverage our applications and Aperi to be able to fully manage and monitor the storage infrastructure.
As I have spoken to each of you that has replied to my emails or have been actively involved in Aperi, I am also receiving a clear message that the community wants to clearly understand the business value for their company in working on Aperi projects. We must provide value to our business and customers by selecting projects that are of reasonable size and enabling the use of common components across the Aperi family. This will allow us to leverage our products today, as well as provide our customers additional value beyond what each of our products do on their own.
We will be having a kickoff meeting the week of November 27th to discuss and define our objectives, themes, and content for Aperi R0.5. I am excited to see many of you are now working on proposals to contribute to Aperi and/or participate in Aperi projects that will achieve these goals. We will discuss our draft candidate list, discuss the survey feedback on your interest to contribute and define how we can work closely together on themed based projects that will start to deliver Aperi based solutions to the market together.
Thank you
Russ
(1) Aperi is used to manage your storage environment. The discovery of the storage resources, the topology view,the monitoring and management of the fabric environment are the key features Aperi provides.
(2) The primary reason you would adopt the Aperi code is to improve interoperation with your hardware and software with storage devices.
(3) Some inhibitors/challenges are in the area of ease of installation and configuration. Hopefully some of this concern has been addressed in Aperi R0.4. For R0.4, the install has been significantly improved over R0.3 because of the install wizard and more bundled 3rd-party libraries (as a result, the documentation will also be improved).
(4) Aperi is used in conjunction with other commercial storage manangement applications.
As we define our themes for Aperi R0.5, we will take these key messages as our guidance. I would like us to focus on integration of the commercial applications we use, via Aperi, so as to ensure we provide storage management solution that is easy to install and use. Based on this focus, I propose that the interoperation of our software and hardware solutions be the main driver for our community. We will want to leverage our applications and Aperi to be able to fully manage and monitor the storage infrastructure.
As I have spoken to each of you that has replied to my emails or have been actively involved in Aperi, I am also receiving a clear message that the community wants to clearly understand the business value for their company in working on Aperi projects. We must provide value to our business and customers by selecting projects that are of reasonable size and enabling the use of common components across the Aperi family. This will allow us to leverage our products today, as well as provide our customers additional value beyond what each of our products do on their own.
We will be having a kickoff meeting the week of November 27th to discuss and define our objectives, themes, and content for Aperi R0.5. I am excited to see many of you are now working on proposals to contribute to Aperi and/or participate in Aperi projects that will achieve these goals. We will discuss our draft candidate list, discuss the survey feedback on your interest to contribute and define how we can work closely together on themed based projects that will start to deliver Aperi based solutions to the market together.
Thank you
Russ
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