• Policy‐based management. – Provides a mechanism for a persistent repository of policies • Policies are a set of rules – This automates repetitive tasks » e.g. Facilitates standard provisioning of storage capacity
– Must be against a given set of rules » Not able to make decisions » Only executes the instruction
– Allows SMI‐S policy clients to enter and edit storage management policy
– Allows a policy manager to be notified when policies are added or changed
– Enables SMI‐S agents (providers) to execute the defined policies
Policy-based management SMI-S includes object models applicable across entire classes of devices, which lets SAN managers implement policy-based management for entire storage networks.