SUMIT GUPTA's BLOG

Last week (5/5/08) I did the putback of final COMSTAR bits into Network Storage Consolidation for release into Solaris Nevada B90. The entire team was very excited to have made the target as it was not easy. Too many things to cover before integration. The following features have been delivered into build 90.

• SCSI target mode framework (stmf driver and stmf service).
• Management library for stmf, libstmf and the related headers.
• 2 CLIs, stmfadm and sbdadm
• Common Fibre Channel port provider (fct) and Qlogic driver for target mode (qlt)

The above is same as what was already being deliverd as a part of opensolaris package SUNWstmf on the COMSTAR project page. However there are some features in the opensolaris package which are still being worked for Solaris integration (and hence are not included in this B90 integration). These are:

• MDBmacros.
• SAS target support.

For all of us in the COMSTAR team this is really a beginning of a new roadmap of exciting features. With a multiprotocol SCSI target mode framework, the list of things which can now be done is pretty long and is growing every day. I hope to post more on Storage Discuss and in this blog as we make further strides.