The placement optimization program: a practical solution to the disk file assignment problem
SIGMETRICS '89 Proceedings of the 1989 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Capacity planning and performance modeling: from mainframes to client-server systems
Capacity planning and performance modeling: from mainframes to client-server systems
Pad++: advances in multiscale interfaces
CHI '94 Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Minerva: An automated resource provisioning tool for large-scale storage systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Appia: Automatic Storage Area Network Fabric Design
FAST '02 Proceedings of the Conference on File and Storage Technologies
Pinpoint: Problem Determination in Large, Dynamic Internet Services
DSN '02 Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
Timing the Application of Security Patches for Optimal Uptime
LISA '02 Proceedings of the 16th USENIX conference on System administration
AUTOLOOP: Automated Action Selection in the "Observe-Analyze-Act" Loop for Storage Systems
POLICY '05 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
Polus: Growing Storage QoS Management Beyond a "4-Year Old Kid"
FAST '04 Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
Quickly finding near-optimal storage designs
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Scalability in system management GUIs: a designer's nightmare
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Genesis: A Scalable Self-Evolving Performance Management Framework for Storage Systems
ICDCS '06 Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
An Empirical Exploration of Black-Box Performance Models for Storage Systems
MASCOTS '06 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation
CHAMELEON: a self-evolving, fully-adaptive resource arbitrator for storage systems
ATEC '05 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Zodiac: efficient impact analysis for storage area networks
FAST'05 Proceedings of the 4th conference on USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies - Volume 4
Using magpie for request extraction and workload modelling
OSDI'04 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Symposium on Opearting Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 6
E2EProf: Automated End-to-End Performance Management for Enterprise Systems
DSN '07 Proceedings of the 37th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks
SMART: an integrated multi-action advisor for storage systems
ATEC '06 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX '06 Annual Technical Conference
Towards highly reliable enterprise network services via inference of multi-level dependencies
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
SPIKE: best practice generation for storage area networks
SYSML'07 Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX workshop on Tackling computer systems problems with machine learning techniques
Automated planners for storage provisioning and disaster recovery
IBM Journal of Research and Development
ParaDisE: parallel discovery engine for enterprise datacenters
ICAC '09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Autonomic computing
Towards a middleware for configuring large-scale storage infrastructures
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Middleware for Grids, Clouds and e-Science
Building end-to-end management analytics for enterprise data centers
IM'09 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Symposium on Integrated Network Management
Improving data-center efficiency for a smarter planet
IBM Journal of Research and Development
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Exponential growth in storage requirements and an increasing number of heterogeneous devices and application policies are making enterprise storage management a nightmare for administrators. Back-of-the-envelope calculations, rules of thumb, and manual correlation of individual device data are too error prone for the day-to-day administrative tasks of resource provisioning, problem determination, performance management, and impact analysis. Storage management tools have evolved over the past several years from standardizing the data reported by storage subsystems to providing intelligent planners. In this paper, we describe that evolution in the context of the IBM Total Storage® Productivity Center (TPC)--a suite of tools to assist administrators in the day-to-day tasks of monitoring, configuring, provisioning, managing change, analyzing configuration, managing performance, and determining problems. We describe our ongoing research to develop ways to simplify and automate these tasks by applying advanced analytics on the performance statistics and raw configuration and event data collected by TPC using the popular Storage Management Initiative-Specification (SMI-S). In addition, we provide details of SMART (storage management analytics and reasoning technology) as a library that provides a collection of data-aggregation functions and optimization algorithms.