Storage Management Initiative – Specification

Storage Management Initiative Specification
Status Published
Year started 2002
Latest version 1.6
September 2014
Organization Storage Networking Industry Association
Base standards CIM, WBEM
Domain Computer storage
Abbreviation SMI-S
Website http://www.snia.org/smis

The Storage Management Initiative Specification, commonly called SMI-S, is a storage standard developed and maintained by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). It has also been ratified as an ISO standard.[1] SMI is based upon the Common Information Model and the Web-Based Enterprise Management standards defined by the Distributed Management Task Force, which define management functionality via HTTP. The most recent approved version of SMI-S is available at the SNIA.[2]

The main objective of SMI-S is to enable broad interoperable management of heterogeneous storage vendor systems. The current version is SMI-S V1.6.0. Over 75 software products and over 800 hardware products are certified as conformant to SMI-S.[3]

Basic concepts

SMI-S defines CIM management profiles for storage systems. The complete SMI Specification is categorized in profiles and subprofiles. A profile describes the behavioral aspects of an autonomous, self-contained management domain. SMI includes profiles for Arrays, Switches, Storage Virtualizers, Volume Management and many other domains. In DMTF parlance, a provider is an implementation for a specific profile. A subprofile describes part of the domain, which can be a common part in many profiles.

At a very basic level, SMI-S entities are divided into two categories:

SMI-S timeline

Open source projects

See also

References

External links

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