CN107465545B - System and method for managing switch - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a system and a method for realizing management of switches, which comprises a storage management system, wherein an FC switch remote management module is integrated and configured in the storage management system, and the remote management module comprises an interface module capable of realizing calling of an FC switch, a control module for communication management of the FC switch, and a network topology module for identifying storage equipment and the FC switch in a network. Compared with the prior art, the system and the method for managing the switch realize the distribution and the division of the storage resources from the storage end, save the deployment and the maintenance time which are about 1/3 compared with the prior art, reduce the maintenance cost due to the saving of the maintenance time, have strong practicability, wide application range and easy popularization.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of computers, in particular to a system and a method for managing a switch.
Background
In the prior art, a storage device and an FC switch are two important elements indispensable in storage. The existing storage management methods are all distributed implementation management, point-to-point setting needs to be performed on storage equipment and an FC switch, and respective management UIs are respectively logged in for operation, so that a large amount of time cost and manpower resources are consumed in the process, and meanwhile, the whole network is complex in deployment and management, disordered in network planning and high in management error rate.
The distributed management has the following characteristics:
the switch networking equipment needs single-point setting;
network topology needs to be recorded definitely, otherwise, maintenance and upgrading of the network bring unimaginable time and labor cost;
the storage management system does not know the information and network state of the interconnected FC switches;
the allocation of storage resources requires partitioning and management from the FC switch.
At present, the storage and the switch are two kinds of independent equipment, each of which plays its own role and does not interfere with each other, and the mode is used for realizing the optimal performance of the equipment, which also causes that more time and labor cost are required to be paid independently in equipment configuration.
In view of the above, if a plurality of management functions can be integrated together to realize management of the storage device and the FC switch through one management interface, the above problems can be effectively solved, and therefore, a new technology capable of combining a plurality of management systems is needed.
Disclosure of Invention
The technical task of the invention is to provide a system and a method for realizing management of the switch aiming at the defects.
The utility model provides a system for realize management to switch, includes the storage management system, and integrated the configuration has FC switch remote management module in this storage management system, and this FC switch remote management module includes the interface module that can realize calling the FC switch, to FC switch communication management's control module, to the network topology module that storage device and FC switch in the network discerned.
The storage management system comprises the following structure:
the storage layer is the basis of the whole storage management system, is used for realizing storage virtualization and consists of storage equipment and a physical interface;
the basic management layer is used for managing and calling the storage equipment of the storage layer, and the management comprises data compression, data distribution, data encryption, data backup and data disaster tolerance;
the application interface layer is used for providing an application service interface, and the FC switch remote management module is configured in the application interface layer;
and the network layer is used for providing a user operation interface and authorizing the user to access.
The storage equipment in the storage layer comprises an NAS network storage, FC storage taking a fiber channel protocol as a bearing protocol and ISCSI storage; the physical interface comprises a network card interface, an optical fiber interface and a serial interface.
The interface module in the FC switch remote management module adopts an API public interface, the storage management system and the FC switch remote management module are developed based on a Linux kernel, mutual calling is realized through the API public interface, and the FC switch remote management module is compatible on the storage management system.
The control module adopts an optical fiber switch FC switch module, adopts a remote login control mode, realizes communication between the storage equipment and the FC switch through a physical interface of a storage layer, forms a GUI operation interface in a storage management system, and monitors and manages the part of the FC switch comprising a power supply, a fan, an FC port and an operation state.
The network Topology module is a Topology module, generates a Topology structure of the whole storage network based on an IPV4 protocol, and realizes identification of storage equipment and switches in the whole network, thereby realizing visual management of SAN.
Based on the system, the method for managing the switch comprises the following implementation processes: on a storage management system, an FC switch remote management module, namely an interface module, a control module and a network topology module, is integrated and configured to realize the calling, communication management and network identification of the switch, and is embedded and displayed in a GUI operation interface of the storage management system.
Recording a feature code of the FC switch in the storage management system, wherein the feature code is a WWN (world Wide Web) number burnt in the switch; when the storage equipment and the FC switch are in the same network and communicate, the storage equipment acquires the WWN number of the interconnected FC switches, so that the FC switches are judged and information of the FC switches is acquired, and GUI operation interfaces corresponding to FC switch products are started in the GUI operation interfaces of the storage management system.
The communication management realized by the control module refers to the communication management of the storage device and the FC switch, the management content refers to the monitoring and management of the FC switch including a power supply, a fan, an FC port and a running state, and the whole process is realized in a GUI operation interface.
The communication between the storage device and the FC switch is realized through a socket process, which specifically comprises the following steps: the system code of the FC switch is converted into a code capable of running on a storage management system, when the system code of the FC switch runs on the storage management system, network communication is carried out through an interface module comprising an API public interface, remote communication of the FC switch is achieved, and after communication is established, an account number of the FC switch is input to carry out management operation of a control module.
Compared with the prior art, the system and the method for realizing management of the switch have the following beneficial effects:
the invention relates to a system and a method for managing a switch, wherein a storage management system and an FC management system are realized in a unified way, so that the deployment and the management of the whole network are simplified; presenting intuitive in-network connection topology and configuration information, and network planning is more intuitive and simple; the storage resources are distributed and divided from the storage end, the deployment and maintenance time of about 1/3 in the prior art is saved, the maintenance cost is reduced due to the saving of the maintenance time, the practicability is high, the application range is wide, and the popularization is easy.
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The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to specific embodiments in order to make the technical field better understand the scheme of the present invention. It is to be understood that the described embodiments are merely exemplary of the invention, and not restrictive of the full scope of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
The following differences exist between storage and switches:
the storage architecture tends to control and process data, and the read-write performance of the data is realized in an optimal mode.
The architecture of the switch tends towards the connection of devices and data forwarding, enabling the transmission of data with the highest stability and efficiency.
The physical architecture is implemented differently, the storage architecture is mainly based on the X86 architecture, and needs hardware to implement various functions and interfaces, and the switch architecture is mainly based on the RISC architecture and needs to implement backplane bandwidth, data communication, network interfaces, and the like. The two architectures are dedicated to their respective roles and operate in unique ways.
Based on the difference of the architecture, the implementation modes of the underlying function codes have larger difference, and the function compatible implementation of the two is also realized by fewer people. Therefore, as shown in fig. 1, the present invention provides a system for managing switches, which implements management of two architectures by the same system through functions compatible with both, and the structure of the system includes a storage management system, in which an FC switch remote management module is integrated and configured, and the FC switch remote management module includes an interface module that can implement call to an FC switch, a control module that manages FC switch communication, and a network topology module that identifies a storage device and an FC switch in a network.
The storage management system comprises the following structure:
the storage layer is the basis of the whole storage management system, is used for realizing storage virtualization and consists of storage equipment and a physical interface;
the basic management layer is used for managing and calling the storage equipment of the storage layer, and the management comprises data compression, data distribution, data encryption, data backup and data disaster tolerance;
the application interface layer is used for providing an application service interface, and the FC switch remote management module is configured in the application interface layer;
and the network layer is used for providing a user operation interface and authorizing the user to access.
The storage equipment in the storage layer comprises an NAS network storage, FC storage taking a fiber channel protocol as a bearing protocol and ISCSI storage; the physical interface comprises a network card interface, an optical fiber interface and a serial interface.
The interface module in the FC switch remote management module adopts an API public interface, the storage management system and the FC switch remote management module are developed based on a Linux kernel, mutual calling is realized through the API public interface, and the FC switch remote management module is compatible on the storage management system.
The control module adopts an optical fiber switch FC switch module, adopts a remote login control mode, realizes communication between the storage equipment and the FC switch through a physical interface of a storage layer, forms a GUI operation interface in a storage management system, and monitors and manages the parts of the FC switch, including a power supply, a fan, an FC port, an operation state, ZONE and ISL TRUNK.
The network Topology module is a Topology module, generates a Topology structure of the whole storage network based on an IPV4 protocol, realizes identification of storage equipment and switches in the whole network, thereby realizing visual management of SAN, simultaneously providing performance bottleneck analysis and solving the problem of SAN performance blocking points.
Based on the system, the functions of the FC switch and the Web UI are embedded into a storage management system in an embedding mode, so that the unified implementation of storage management and FC switch management is realized, and the deployment management of all FC switches in the whole storage network can be realized only by logging in one storage Web UI.
The method mainly comprises three parts:
and A, realizing the fusion of Java code levels by the FC switch function and the storage management function.
And B, the characteristic code is added to the FC switch in the storage management system, so that the operation UI of the corresponding product is started.
And C, realizing the mutual communication between the storage management system and the FC switch and endowing the management authority by using the socket.
The realization process is as follows: on a storage management system, an FC switch remote management module, namely an interface module, a control module and a network topology module, is integrated and configured to realize the calling, communication management and network identification of the switch, and is embedded and displayed in a GUI operation interface of the storage management system.
Recording a feature code of the FC switch in the storage management system, wherein the feature code is a WWN (world Wide Web) number burnt in the switch; when the storage equipment and the FC switch are in the same network and communicate, the storage equipment acquires the WWN number of the interconnected FC switches, so that the FC switches are judged and information of the FC switches is acquired, and GUI operation interfaces corresponding to FC switch products are started in the GUI operation interfaces of the storage management system.
The communication management realized by the control module refers to the communication management of the storage device and the FC switch, the management content refers to the monitoring and management of the parts including a power supply, a fan, an FC port, an operation state, a ZONE and an ISL TRUNK in the FC switch, and the whole process is realized in a GUI operation interface in an operation mode.
The communication between the storage device and the FC switch is realized through a socket process, which specifically comprises the following steps: the system code of the FC switch is converted into a code capable of running on a storage management system, when the system code of the FC switch runs on the storage management system, network communication is carried out through an interface module comprising an API public interface, remote communication of the FC switch is achieved, and after communication is established, an account number of the FC switch is input to carry out management operation of a control module.
In the system and the method, the switch function embedded into the storage is an effective way for realizing remote management, the management of the whole topological network is realized more efficiently, and meanwhile, the respective operating environments of the storage and the switch still do not interfere with each other, and the performance cost is not paid for the function.
The present invention can be easily implemented by those skilled in the art from the above detailed description. The principles and embodiments of the present invention are explained herein using specific examples, which are presented only to assist in understanding the method and its core concepts. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, it is possible to make various improvements and modifications to the present invention without departing from the principle of the present invention, and those improvements and modifications also fall within the scope of the claims of the present invention.
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1. A system for realizing management of switches is characterized by comprising a storage management system, wherein an FC switch remote management module is integrated and configured in the storage management system, and comprises an interface module capable of realizing calling of an FC switch, a control module for communication management of the FC switch, and a network topology module for identifying storage equipment and the FC switch in a network;
the storage management system comprises the following structure:
the storage layer is the basis of the whole storage management system, is used for realizing storage virtualization and consists of storage equipment and a physical interface;
the basic management layer is used for managing and calling the storage equipment of the storage layer, and the management comprises data compression, data distribution, data encryption, data backup and data disaster tolerance;
the application interface layer is used for providing an application service interface, and the FC switch remote management module is configured in the application interface layer;
the network layer is used for providing a user operation interface and authorizing the user to access;
the control module adopts an optical fiber switch (FC) switch module, adopts a remote login control mode, realizes communication between the storage equipment and the FC switch through a physical interface of a storage layer, forms a Graphical User Interface (GUI) operation interface in a storage management system, and monitors and manages the part of the FC switch comprising a power supply, a fan, an FC port and an operation state;
the network Topology module is a Topology module, generates a Topology structure of the whole storage network based on an IPV4 protocol, and realizes identification of storage equipment and switches in the whole network, thereby realizing visual management of SAN.
2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the storage devices in the storage layer comprise NAS network storage, FC storage using fibre channel protocol as bearer protocol, ISCSI storage; the physical interface comprises a network card interface, an optical fiber interface and a serial interface.
3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the interface module in the FC switch remote management module is an API public interface, the storage management system and the FC switch remote management module are both developed based on Linux kernel, and the FC switch remote management module is compatible with the storage management system by implementing mutual call through the API public interface.
4. A method for implementing management of a switch, characterized in that the method is based on the system of any of the preceding claims 1-3, and the implementation procedure is as follows: on a storage management system, an FC switch remote management module, namely an interface module, a control module and a network topology module, is integrated and configured to realize the calling, communication management and network identification of the switch, and is embedded and displayed in a GUI operation interface of the storage management system;
recording a feature code of the FC switch in the storage management system, wherein the feature code is a WWN (world Wide Web) number burnt in the switch; when the storage equipment and the FC switch are in the same network and communicate, the storage equipment acquires the WWN number of the interconnected FC switches so as to judge the FC switches and acquire the information of the FC switches, and starts the GUI operation interface corresponding to an FC switch product in the GUI operation interface of the storage management system;
the communication between the storage device and the FC switch is realized through a socket process, which specifically comprises the following steps: the system code of the FC switch is converted into a code capable of running on a storage management system, when the system code of the FC switch runs on the storage management system, network communication is carried out through an interface module comprising an API public interface, remote communication of the FC switch is achieved, and after communication is established, an account number of the FC switch is input to carry out management operation of a control module.
5. The method for managing the switch as claimed in claim 4, wherein the communication management implemented by the control module refers to the communication management of the storage device and the FC switch, the management refers to the monitoring and management of the FC switch including the power supply, the fan, the FC port, and the operation status, and the whole process is implemented in the GUI operation interface.
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