Release Planning

Aperi Wiki Home Project Plans

Items for consideration for our next release:

• Current R0.5 Line items:
  • Launch In Context
  • Single Sign On
  • Eclipse Based Help
  • Linux HA Cluster support
  • Virtual Fabric FC Security Specification
  • San Simulator R0.2
    • Derby Support
    • Multiple DB Support
    • DS 6000 / DS 8000 Currency
    • CIM ESS Control Functions

• R0.4 Line items:
  • Europa Migration - complete
  • Download/Installation Experience – complete
  • SWT Browser widget – complete
  • Discovering paravirtualized block devices - complete
  • 199312 Support new IBM DS CIMOM Version 5.2 - complete
  • Support for running the agent inside Virtual Machines (Xen is w.i.p.) code available
  • Solaris enablement - '
  • Tutorials “complete”
  • SAN Simulator R0.1 “complete”

• From R0.3:
  • Build and Test process – sizing complete
  • Form based authentication – sizing complete
  • Sample Reports - sizing complete
  • Integrate with JNDI – sizing complete
  • CBE/WEF event generation - Fujitsu/IBM working
  • Reporting Data Model

• Enhancement bugzillas:
  • ID Summary
  • 165532 Unable to add CIMOM agent requiring no id/pw From 0.3
  • 166192 CIM xml - communication should be traced into a single s...
  • 166869 Storage Availability/Capacity and Total Freespace DAS only
  • 172223 DB2 BigDecimal conversion exception when running probe of... From 0.3
  • 174996 Discover iSCSI targets via iSNS or SLP
  • 195226 create SMIS Plugin (org.eclipse.aperi.smis)
  • 199181 SLP scanning should be of by default
  • 201766 Document the Aperi schema
  • 166820 Removed Resource Retention Panel missing row for 'computer'
  • 185765 aperi-20070506-212356: gui.bat launches legacy GUI not ne... From 0.3

• Other items:
  • Currency: Update to BIRT Viewer 2.2
  • Currency: Update to latest Derby version (we are currently 2 levels down)
  • Currency: Convert documentation to DITA
  • Create DITA contribution proc for open source
  • Provide platform support for Solaris
  • Performance management of arrays
  • SAN or array-wide volume utilization/performance visualizer
  • Centralized LUN masking management
  • Centralized zone management
  • N-Port virtualization
  • Virtual fabric subprofile
  • FC Security (port binding)
  • Making Aperi's cluster support work with Linux HA cluster technology
  • Making Aperi's agent run inside a Xen VM and properly discover virtualized disks
  • Adding support for iSCSI storage discovery via iSNS/SLP; using the Linux iSNS project.
  • Support for other clusters e.g. LinuxHA (perhaps via CIM_Cluster)
  • Support for (server) host profiles
  • Support for servers w/ HBAs supporting Fibre Channel N_Port_ID virtualization (NPIV)
  • Support for servers with multipath fabric attachment (question from the demo Webcast) - e.g. ** Linux with dm-multipath
  • Launch in context
  • Framework components
  • CIM based provider tool
  • SMI-S 1.2 support
  • Analyze the possibility to move from Apache SOAP to Axis or Axis2
  • NAS Profile
  • SMI-S Fabric and Switch Support
  • CTP Testing
  • TPC Porting