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Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 09:14:16 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: Brian Stark <brian.stark@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: LSI meeting prep
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On Sun, 10 May 2009 08:59:54 -0700 Brian Stark <brian.stark@onstor.com>
wrote:

> Here's a link to some presentations that Jonathan gave to the SEs:
> 
> <\\mightydog\SE
> Docs\SESeminarSeries08<file:///\\mightydog\SE%20Docs\SESeminarSeries08>>

I hate to say it, but this isn't a link.  I can't get it to resolve in
any of the usual ways.  Can you give an http:// link?  Like
http://md/whatev-

> Feel free to incorporate any of this material in the presentations
> that you're preparing.  There's some good presentation material on
> StorFS, CIFS, NFS, and Virtual Servers.  The presentation was also
> recorded if you want to listen.
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Brian Stark
> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 4:52 PM
> To: Maxim Kozlovsky; Andy Sharp; Chris Vandever; Ed Kwan; Bill
> Fisher; Sandrine Boulanger; Jonathan Goldick; Narayan Venkat; Bob
> Miller Subject: LSI meeting prep
> 
> Here's a summary of the areas that we'll be covering in the LSI
> meeting along with the owners for those areas:
> 
> a)       Cougar & Leopard System Demonstration - Mike Coyne
> b)       Cougar System Architecture (Pipeline architecture with
> detailed explanation of the different components. E.g., TxRx, FP, FC,
> SSC, RMC, ClusDB) - Brian c)       EverON Software Architecture -
> Describe the software layers and how it is implemented (Show data
> flow and various key functions that are invoked as data goes from
> TxRx to FC and disk.  Need to get into details of EEE, state
> machines, TCP offload, cods, packet assembly, no data copy, NFS and
> CIFS stack, virtual server, authentication, clustering, ...) -
> Jonathan, Max, Andy d)       Protocols - Max e)       StorFS File
> system architecture (interfacing with TxRx, multi-protocol layer,
> file system features and optimizations, allocation, volume
> management, SDM/EVM, SCSI layer, multi-pathing) - Max f)
> Snapshots architecture (how does it work) - Max g)       Data
> Mirroring (FC and IP, details of how they work) - Max h)
> Clustering (how does it work, heartbeat, fencing, takeover, ...) -
> Chris i)         Virtual Server (features, provisioning, VS stack in
> TxRx, VS move, ...) - Chris j)         System management workflow
> (SSC, mgmt interface, web server, CLI) - Andy k)       PLC process  -
> Brian l)         Software development methodology and processes (what
> are our processes, ...) - Andy and Ed m)     Tools that we use
> (source code mgmt system, bug tracking, build env, ...) - Andy
> n)       EMRS and autosupport - Ed o)       System Test Methodology
> (how do we test, automation, ...) - Sandrine p)       System quals
> and certifications done by others ---Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi, IBM, et al
> - Sandrine q)       Lab tour - Brian r)        IA System HW
> requirement - Brian s)       Porting to IA with milestones for
> delivery and schedule - Brian t)        TuxRX and TuxFP - Andy and
> Bill u)       Need to explain that at the end of the various phases
> what functionality (snapshots, mirroring, virtual server, clustering,
> CIFS, NFS, GNS, ...) do we get on the system - Andy and Bill
> v)        Open Source development expertise (Linux expertise, who and
> how many years) - Andy, Bill, Max w)      GNS NFS - Jonathan x)
> ZFS Porting approach and plan (how are we going to do it) - Jonathan
> y)       Address CDDL and GPL (Are we crystal clear on this?) -
> Jonathan, Narayan & Ed Frank
> 
> 
> This is a rough order of presentations - what we have, how we do it,
> and where we're going.  We'll work out the exact order in the dry run
> on Monday, and I'll send out a separate meeting invitation for that.
> For Tuesday, our plan is to go as long as LSI wants and then
> reconvene on Wednesday if needed.
> 
> Also, I've attached a technology slide that was shown to LSI
> earlier.  This slide has served as the basis for the above list and
> will be referred to often in our discussion.  For your presentations,
> my suggestion is to start with block diagrams and then expand on
> those.  As you get your presentation material together, please send
> it to Narayan, Bob, and me so that it can be incorporated into a
> single slide deck.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian
> 
> 
> 
