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Jump to: navigation, search  Ted Slupesky and Todd Singleton
Latest Update: August 2006   Architecture of Aperi Storage
Manager   This document describes the architecture of the Aperi
Storage Manager, an open source storage management platform
owned by a community of storage vendors. The Aperi Storage
Manager is based on an initial contribution from IBM of a large
portion of the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center 3.1 product.
Leveraging the Eclipse Platform, the Aperi project intends to
develop an extensible storage management application framework
and an initial set of exemplary, exploiting applications. The
framework will include standards-based services for control,
discovery, and monitoring of storage resources. Initial
candidate exploiters include file system, fabric, tape, and disk
management applications.  The platform should be extensible, so
that community members can eas