On the SAN side, Microsoft unveiled two tools aimed at easing the deployment and maintenance of Fibre Channel SANs under Windows Server 2003, said Claude Lorenson, technical product manager for storage technology.
The first, Fibre Channel Information Tool, is a SAN discovery tool that looks at various parts of a multivendor SAN to gather information on firmware revisions, drivers, worldwide port names and statistics into a database, where it can help storage administrators troubleshoot deployment and other problems, said Lorenson.
The tool is expected to be available for free download starting in May, Lorenson said. A number of vendors, including Emulex, LSI Logic and QLogic, are demonstrating the tool at the Storage Networking World conference in Phoenix this week.
Microsoft is also unveiling the Storage Event Tracing Tool. Tracing is the ability to monitor events within a SAN, particularly the signals sent from one device to another, said Lorenson.
The traces are downloaded into a text file for access by storage administrators when troubleshooting a SAN, Lorenson said. "This reduces finger-pointing on a SAN, so an administrator won't call the host-bus adapter person and getting told the problem is in the array and then the array person saying the problem is in Windows," he said.
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