Unified Storage View for Root Cause Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current storage management technologies fail to provide a single interface that represents all portions of a storage area network, requiring users to navigate through multiple views to monitor complex relations, leading to inefficient root cause analysis and monitoring.
Innovation Solution
A mechanism that displays all objects and their configurations within a storage system in a single view, allowing for zoomable visualization, customizable performance metrics, and user-friendly navigation through graphical user interfaces, enabling detailed root cause analysis and monitoring without constant view changes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple views are used to monitor storage system components, then detailed information about each component can be accessed, but user navigation complexity and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple storage system views (storage area network view, host view, storage device view, etc.) into a single unified view that displays all objects and interconnections simultaneously. This allows users to access detailed information about any component without navigating through multiple separate views, directly resolving the contradiction by maintaining information accessibility while eliminating navigation time loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The single view interface serves multiple functions by displaying different levels of storage system hierarchy (storage area network, hosts, storage devices, volumes, etc.) and their interconnections within one interface. Users can monitor any component or relationship without switching views, making the interface universal for all monitoring needs while reducing time consumption.
2Reliability
If multiple views are used to represent storage system portions, then comprehensive monitoring is achieved, but interface complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate interface views into a single unified interface that presents comprehensive storage system information. This merging approach maintains monitoring completeness by displaying all storage area network components while reducing interface complexity to a single cohesive view rather than multiple separate interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The single view interface uses segmentation to organize complex storage system information hierarchically, displaying storage area network objects, host objects, storage device objects, and their interconnections in a structured manner. This segmentation allows comprehensive monitoring to be achieved through organized presentation rather than multiple separate views, reducing perceived interface complexity.
3Measurement precision
If detailed root cause analysis is performed through multiple view transitions, then accurate diagnosis is achieved, but operational efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges all necessary view transitions into a single view that displays complete storage system topology and object relationships. Users can perform detailed root cause analysis by examining the unified view directly without transitioning between multiple views, thereby maintaining diagnosis accuracy while significantly improving analysis efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The single view interface performs preliminary organization of all storage system information before user interaction, pre-rendering the complete topology and relationships. This allows users to immediately access detailed diagnostic information without needing to navigate through multiple views during the analysis process, improving operational efficiency while maintaining precision.
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AI summary
A storage system analysis and monitoring mechanism performs root cause analysis and monitoring of a storage system via a single view of the storage system. A set of objects are identified within the storage system, where the identification of the set of objects is performed by at least one of a topology discovery or a data structure search. For each object in the set of objects, one or more interconnections to one or more other objects in the set of objects are identified. A view of the storage system is then generated in a graphical user interface showing each of the objects in the set of objects and, for each object in the set of objects, the one or more interconnections to one or more other objects in the set of objects.