Purpose: This document is an entry point for the end users to learn about various aspects of an OSG Storage Element.

What is a Storage Element?

An overview of various kinds of Storage Elements on OSG is available here

How do I find out which SEs are available for me to use?

Various SEs that are part of OSG are listed here. On this webpage you can find out which SEs support your VO (Virtual Organization).Please note that access to this page requires that you have a valid user certificate loaded in your browser and that it may take about 20 seconds to load the information on this webpage.

How do I access Storage?

Following are the three different set of tools you can use to access Storage on OSG. These tools allow you do various things such as check if you are authorized to access a Storage Element, copy data to the remote storage location, cleanup and retrieve data back from the remote storage location, perform third-party transfers between two different storage locations, reserve space on a storage element etc.

Fermi SRM Clients

LBL SRM Clients

LCG SRM Clients

How do I learn more about the clients used to access Storage?

A "behind-the-scenes" SRM client guide is coming soon.

I have question about Storage Element, whom do I contact?

See if your question is already answered under the FAQ section of SETools,Tips,FAQs

If not, please send all your questions to osg-storage@opensciencegrid.org

Additional References

To learn more about dCache, refer to the dCache Book

To learn more about Grid Storage Access using Fermi SRM Clients, refer to the Grid Storage Access Presentation

-- NehaSharma - 22 Aug 2008