The SHC-OSD software product is the BS2000 host component for storage systems. It makes storage management functions available to the BS2000 operating system. It connects storage systems and their administration with the BS2000 operating system.
SHC-OSD supports the ETERNUS DX/AF storage systems of FUJITSU.
It implements information services and control commands for local and remote replication functions of the storage systems.
The replication functions are offered with functions of the storage systems:
Equivalent Copy (EC), QuickOPC, SnapOPC+ and Remote Equivalent Copy (REC)
In detail SHC-OSD offers the following functions:
Information on the configuration of the storage system
output of global configuration data, such as model and firmware version, number of physical and logical devices, cache size, storage cluster
output of information on the logical devices of the storage system, such as device name, capacity, RAID level
General functions for local replication
output of status information
set up and cancel local replication
splitting of original data and copy for independent processing of data
reconstruction of data
Functions for local replication
QuickOPC: immediately available, complete copy of the data
Equivalent Copy (EC):
quickly available, complete copy and mirroring of the dataSnapOPC+: directly available “snapshot” of the data.
General functions for remote replication
output of status information
set up and cancel remote replication
change the processing mode
testing the recovery procedures
control after a disaster
Functions for remote replication
Remote Equivalent Copy (REC): synchronous and asynchronous replication between ETERNUS DX/AF storage systems
Thin provisioning
output of configuration and status information
monitoring functions
Automated Storage Tiering (AST)
output of configuration and status information
monitoring functions
Storage Cluster Option (SCO)
output of configuration and status information of the Storage Cluster
monitoring functions
manual failover and failback
The settings required to use these functions in the storage systems are configured up front by a qualified technician. The necessary software and licenses must exist.
The prerequisites for the use of SHC-OSD and for the supported storage systems are described in the section "Installing and configuring SHC-OSD".
Integration of ETERNUS DX/AF in SHC-OSD is based on the component StorMan from FUJITSU. StorMan integrates storage systems based on the SNIA standard SMI-S. For ETERNUS DX/AF the SMI-S Provider of FUJITSU is used for this purpose.