General

The following chapter covers the main lines of StorMan's architecture. The core part, i.e. the StorMan server, incorporates the virtualization layer and the storage specific layer.

Figure 2: Architecture

The functions on the StorMan client side are provided as CLIs (Command line interfaces) and graphical interface (WebUI).

The StorMan server is installed and runs as a service on one or more Management Units of SE servers depending on caller and storage application requirements.