A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, School of Advanced Technologies

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 2002

Currently, the need of storage capacity is growing very fast, particularly in the enterprise computing system that it also requires continuous process for serving on a 24x7 basis. Therefore, the feature's keys of information base system are not only serving data but also providing high available and reliable infrastructure to the system. Regarding these requirements, storage network architectures have been proposed for fulfilling the demands of information base system by distributing its resources. Since the user's choice is the user's right, a system usually consists of many devices from various vendors and is implemented by several architectures. Then, many systems have been shifted into heterogeneous environments. Consequently, the management for information base system must be conducted to more complex network architectures. Automated management of storage network in heterogeneous envirorunents for information base system is designed by three main objectives that are simplifying storage management, reducing the cost of ownership, and improving performance of data delivery, availability, and reliability. To achieve these objectives, the following services are proposed and implemented in the prototype system that are automated device configuration, intelligent source of information discovery, automated backup operation on schedule, and automated recovery operation from disaster. As this system is designed for managing in heterogeneous environments that it is compound of many kinds of devices from various vendors and each device also requires for individual management, then the system's management design is divided into two components. One is a management facade component designed for manipulating the shared resource such as configuring each device. Another is a management policy component designed for defining rules to achieve the management goals that may make a change to shared resources through their management facades e.g., operating automated backup on scheduling and automated recovery from disaster.