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This is a quick introduction to the File System Manager -- by way of resurrecting my blog! Over the coming weeks I will walk through the many features that the Manager offers to configure, monitor and manage SAM & QFS file systems.

First, a very brief introduction to SAM-QFS products from the Sun website:

Sun StorageTek Storage Archive Manager (SAM) software provides data classification, centralized meta-data management, policy based data placement, protection, migration, long-term retention, and recovery to help organizations effectively manage and utilize data according to business requirements.

 Sun StorageTek QFS shared file system software improves quality of service and utilization of SAN infrastructures. It delivers maximum scalability, data management, and throughput for the most data-intensive applications, optimizing the data path across your infrastructure and enabling the convergence of SAN and NAS technologies.

 
The File System Manager has been around from the 4.0 release of the SAM-QFS product and the latest version released with SAM-QFS 4.6. The Manager is bundled with the base SAM-QFS product.

Below we see a screen-shot of a system which has a SAM file system configured [note: all SAM file systems, archiving or non-archiving are referred to as "qfs" in the manager; archiving, if configured, is added as the attribute], besides a few other file systems [UFS, ZFS, non-archiving SAM file systems...]:
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Among many other features, the Manager also lets us manage all the archive media [disk-based, magnetic tape libraries etc] associated with a server which has SAM file systems. In the image below is shown a summary of the tape library associated with the system. Please note that the tape lib is being managed via the ACSLS software.

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 I will drill down into further details of this very feature-rich product which offers completely secure, web-based management of systems running SAM-QFS. As a preview, I will touch upon the management of media, clustered systems, shared file systems, snapshot and recovery, file system metrics, fault monitoring and, of course, archiving in my forthcoming posts.