ISO Acceptance of SNIA Storage Management Initiative Spec

The Storage Network Industry Association‘s (SNIA) Storage Management Initiative (SMI) announced that the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) have accredited the SMI Specification version 1.5 (SMI-S v1.5).

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The standard is designated as ISO/IEC 24775.

SMI-S v1.5 contains important new storage management functionality and the ratification will further standardize and streamline storage management functions and features into a common set of tools that address the day-to-day tasks of the IT environment. SMI-S is incorporated into over 1,000 storage products, allowing management application developers to support devices from multiple vendors quickly and reliably because they ‘look and behave alike.’

Features SMI-S v1.5:

Supports additional types of storage connectivity, as well as capabilities offered by newer storage networking devices
Addresses operational requirements such as power monitoring
New functionality for block storage devices includes support for replication, thin provisioning and refinements for how block storage is made available from multiple storage devices
NAS device functionality, which now brings improvements in the way file storage is managed and shared.
Improvement on how storage networking fabrics can be managed and shared
New functionality for hosts includes support for additional types of HBAs and for host-based RAID storage
The addition of over 50 new profiles to SMI-S 1.5

“The accreditation of SMI-S v1.5 by ISO and IEC adds another important standard to our international lineup,” said Chris Lionetti, chair, . “These tools allow companies to manage a broad range of international products in a consistent way without losing time resolving protocol and API variations. This allows lower development and testing costs, shorter time to market and greater IT and end-user satisfaction.“

SMI-S experts have presented at the Storage Developer Conference the Monday, September 21, 2015 in Santa Clara, CA: