Storage Networking Solutions
The management of storage networking platforms is becoming increasingly complex. Trends like SAN consolidation, unified management, increasing intelligence in embedded storage networking platforms, and demands for role-based access control are driving the need for more sophisticated management capabilities. Tail-f's software is designed to develop robust management solutions for a range of IP storage devices including storage switches and routers.
Key requirements for storage network management are:
- Rapid application development
- Key northbound interfaces (CLI, Web UI, SNMP)
- Comprehensive NETCONF support - programmatic XML interface
- Support for blade and appliance formats
- High-performance light weight XML database
- Multi-node transactions
- Support for performance levels of large networks
- Dynamically join clusters of network elements
- Flexible deployment
- Enterprise-class security
- Role-based access control
- Compact memory footprint
For more information on our Storage Network Solutions download our datasheets:
See also our whitepaper on “Building Carrier-grade On-Device Network Management Systems” by EMA for a detailed discussion of industry issues and how enterprise-class requirements are converging.
Solutions from Tail-f Systems for the storage networking market are:
- ConfD - industry leading embedded network management solution.
- Instant NETCONF Agent - adding a northbound NETCONF interface to legacy network management devices.
- ConfM - automated configuration management including functions like network-wide transactional changes and configuration synchronization to allow operators to build network-wide intelligence into the process of configuring networks.