Storage Management Initiative - Specification

Storage Management Initiative - Specification

SMI-S, or the Storage Management Initiative - Specification, is a storage standard developed and maintained by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). It has also been ratified as ANSI standard [http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstore/product.asp?sku=ANSI+INCITS+388-2004 ANSI INCITS 388-2004] . SMI-S is based upon the Common Information Model and the Web-Based Enterprise Management standards defined by the Distributed Management Task Force, Management via TCP/IP.

The main objective of SMI-S is to enable broad interoperability among heterogeneous storage vendor systems. The current version is SMI-S V1.2.1. Over 280 products from 18 SNIA Member companies are certified as conformant to SMI-S 1.2.1. [http://www.wbemsolutions.com/tutorials/snia/SMI/Marketing/smi-timeline.html SMI Timeline] from SMI Marketing Tutorial] A detailed tutorial for developing and marketing SMI-S compliant storage systems is provided at the WBEM Solutions site. [http://www.wbemsolutions.com/tutorials/snia/ SMI Tutorials] for developing and marketing SMI-S compliant storage systems.]

Basic concepts

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

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

* Clients are management software applications that can reside virtually anywhere within a network provided they have a physical link (either within the data path or outside the data path) to providers.
* Servers are the devices under management within the storage fabric.

Clients can be host-based management applications (e.g., storage resource management, or SRM), enterprise management applications, or SAN appliance-based management applications (e.g., virtualization engines). Servers can be disk arrays, host bus adapters, switches, tape drives, etc.

MI timeline

*2000 - A collection of computer data storage industry leaders led by Roger Reich begun building an interoperable management backbone for storage and storage networks (code named [http://www.wbemsolutions.com/tutorials/snia/SMI/Technical/smis-history.html Bluefin] ) in a small industry consortia sponsored by VERITAS software called the Partner Development Process.
*2002 — Blufin was donated by the consortia to the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and was later renamed to Storage Management Initiative - Specification or SMI-S. SMI-S 1.0 publicly announced by the SNIA.
*2003 — The Storage Management Initiative led by Roger Reich launched formal industry wide specification development, interoperability testing and demonstrations programs, as well as conformance testing systems and certifications.
*2004 — SMI-S 1.0.2 becomes an ANSI standard. Starts the initial development of SMIS 1.1.0.
*2005 — SMI-S 1.0.2 submitted to ISO. Releases SMI-S 1.1.0.

ee also

*CIM — Common Information Model
*WBEM — Web-Based Enterprise Management
*SNIA — Storage Networking Industry Association

References

External links

* [http://www.snia.org/smi/home SNIA SMI-S homepage] provides good material both at the overview and detail level.
* [http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/standards/curr_standards/smi SMI Specification] Approved Specifications of the SMI
* [http://groups.google.com/group/smi-s-developers-group SMI-S Developers Group] Provides information to assist developers working with SMI-S

Open Source Projects

* [http://openpegasus.com/ OpenPegasus] SMI-S Open Source Project
* [http://www.eclipse.org/aperi/ Aperi] Eclipse Aperi SMI-S Storage Manager


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Storage Management Initiative - Specification — SMI S (sigle pour Storage Management Initiative Specification) est une spécification de norme de gestion du stockage, analogue à ce qu est SNMP pour les équipements réseau informatique. C est une norme ANSI développée et maintenue par le SNIA. Le …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Storage Management Initiative — SMI S (sigle pour Storage Management Initiative Specification) est une spécification de norme de gestion du stockage, analogue à ce qu est SNMP pour les équipements réseau informatique. C est une norme ANSI développée et maintenue par le SNIA. Le …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Storage management — can refer to one of the following:* ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager * Automatic Storage Management * Enterprise storage management * Hierarchical storage management * IBM Tivoli Storage Manager * OpenView Storage Area Manager * Storage… …   Wikipedia

  • Storage area network — Not to be confused with Network attached storage. Computer network types by geographical scope Body (BAN) Personal (PAN) Near me (NAN) Local (LAN) Home (HAN) Storage (SAN) Campus (CAN) Backbone Metropolitan (MAN) Wide (WAN) …   Wikipedia

  • Web-Based Enterprise Management — (WBEM) is a set of systems management technologies developed to unify the management of distributed computing environments. WBEM is based on Internet standards and Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) open standards: Common Information Model… …   Wikipedia

  • Direct-attached storage — (DAS) refers to a digital storage system directly attached to a server or workstation, without a storage network in between. It is a retronym, mainly used to differentiate non networked storage from SAN and NAS. Contents 1 Features 2 Storage… …   Wikipedia

  • Distributed Management Task Force — Distributed Management Task Force, Inc. Création 1992 Type Organisme de normalisation Siège …   Wikipédia en Français

  • SMI-S — Storage Management Initiative Specification SMI S (sigle pour Storage Management Initiative Specification) est une spécification de norme de gestion du stockage, analogue à ce qu est SNMP pour les équipements réseau informatique. C est une norme… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Abkürzungen/Computer — Dies ist eine Liste technischer Abkürzungen, die im IT Bereich verwendet werden. A [nach oben] AA Antialiasing AAA authentication, authorization and accounting, siehe Triple A System AAC Advanced Audio Coding AACS …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Liste der Abkürzungen (Computer) — Dies ist eine Liste technischer Abkürzungen, die im IT Bereich verwendet werden. A [nach oben] AA Antialiasing AAA authentication, authorization and accounting, siehe Triple A System AAC Advanced Audio Coding AACS …   Deutsch Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”