SMI-S 1.1 simplifies storage management

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SMI-S 1.1 simplifies storage management

By Ray Dunn

When it comes to storage environments, management, complexity,
interoperability and serviceability are among the top challenges
IT professionals face.

Answering this call, the Storage Networking Industry Association
(SNIA) recently released Version 1.1 of its Storage Management
Initiative Specification (SMI-S).

SMI-S helps maintain and protect information in all the
electronic forms represented by the various types of storage
products.

By standardizing the communications that occur to provide
management services to the storage infrastructure, SMI-S lets IT
administrators use a single application for many operations that
traditionally required separate management products in a storage
network.

SMI-S 1.1 enables enhanced services in the areas of
configuration, provisioning and trend reporting, event
management, security and data protection.

For example, if a user wants to provision a new logical unit
number (LUN), he would request storage for the application. He
would supply the requirements for QoS and data protection. Then,
the SMI-S Version 1.1 storage management would determine the
availability of storage to meet these requirements. The
management application request would go over a TCP/IP link to an
SMI-S hardware device for information, which would be maintained
in the SMI-S proxy server acting in the role of a Common
Information Model Object Manager (CIMOM).

CIMOM would be able to provide information from several devices
back to a management client. Lastly, the user would select a LUN
through the storage management application, which then would
perform a set of actions to assign a LUN to the application.

For more on this story, including some highlights of SMI-S 1.1
go to: <http://www.networkworld.com/nltechupdate2346>
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Dunn is an industry standards marketing manager with Sun, a
member of the SNIA board of directors and an officer with the
Storage Management Forum.
He can be reached at mailto:Raymond.Dunn@Sun.com.
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