Fourteen storage suppliers have passed conformance tests
for the Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) System
Management Interface scheme (SMI-S).
SMI-S, the storage industry's implementation of CIM (Common
Information Model) and WBEM (Web-Based Enterprise Management), is a
set of management interfaces designed to make it easier for storage
hardware and management software from different suppliers to work
together.
The conformance test includes a storage array profile and seven
sub-profiles, including features for volume creation and LUN
masking (hiding servers).
The suppliers with products which passed were Brocade
Communications Systems, Dell, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi Data
Systems, IBM, LSI Logic Storage Systems, McData, Network Appliance,
Silicon Graphics, Storage Technology and Sun Microsystems.
Chris Mellor writes for Techworld.com