IITK-OSD-SIM

IITK OSD Simulator Project is an implementation of simulator for object based storage device (OSD). 

OSD technology, built  on top of Storage Area Network (SAN), provides solution to problems of security and scalability associated with the block level storage. OSD device exports object interface and provides access to object data only if the requester possesses required security token. This device also implements storage component of file system  which is traditionally implemented by host software.

This project provides software implementation of OSD device functionalities. It has OSD-iSCSI module that extends iSCSI Enterprise Target  for support of OSD commands and OSD simulator module that implements OSD commands on local file system.

Our implementation is compliant with T10 standard. We are also providing support for collection objects.

IITK-OSD-SIM is licensed under the GNU General Public License. We encourage you to use this code and let us know your perspective on scope for improvement,. You can also join our developers team and contribute to it .

This project is conceptualized by IIT Kanpur along with inputs from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).

Project Site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/iitk-osd-sim/

Developed By

 

Riyaz Shiraguppi  (riyazs AT gmail DOT com)

Supervisor:
Dr. Rajat Moona   (moona AT iitk DOT ac DOT in)                
Department of Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur