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OpenSolaris Project: Automatic Data Migration

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Welcome to ADM

Automatic Data Migration (ADM) is a hierarchical storage management system for Sun filesystems. ADM provides several key functions.

• Capture file data to archive storage (tape or disk), and preemptively releasing data blocks in order to keep applications from running out of disk space.
• Recall of released data from archive storage, when needed.
• Capture, release and recall data to/from archive storage based on policies established by the administrator based on file characteristics.

ADM will initially integrate with ZFS, supplying file archiving, releasing (freeing up filesystem blocks associated with a file), and automatic retreival based on access. The ADM/ZFS project provides some of the functional characteristics provided by todays SAM-QFS, but could be ported to other filesystems as well. ADM is intended to scale beyond existing HSM systems in the number of files, size of files and amount of back end storage. This is accomplished by enabling major functions of the HSM system to be distributed between different nodes in the system, or duplicate nodes.

ADM Features

• Policy Management of files, including classification
• Data protection (archiving) as many copies of a file as needed
• ZFS level scalability
• Disk archiving support
• STK tape and library support via the Media Management System (MMS)
• Simplified administration model

For a more detailed look at these features, and more, check out What is ADM? page.

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ADM is being constructed in an open source environment.

Blogs

Gregory Matthews - IEEE 1244 Removable Media Standards Meeting

Mar 6, 4:11 PM

A note from Curtis Anderson. He wanted to get this out to the open source world, and thought this was a great place to start. Please contact Curtis directly if you are interested in attending. - ...

Gregory Matthews - MMS Functional Specification Now Posted

Jan 31, 4:03 PM

It's taken us a bit longer than we figured, but we've posted the MMS Functional Specification that we've been working on. You can view it at: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/mms/docs/ Most of ...

Gregory Matthews - MMS IEEE Working Group Meeting - Are You Interested?

Dec 17, 2:02 PM

Are you interested in participating or following the Media Management System (IEEE 1244) standard? Read on. Just this past weekend, we received a note from one of the IEEE standards members about ...