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The main objective of SMI-S is to enable broad interoperability among heterogeneous storage vendor systems. The current version is SMI-S V1.1.0. Over 280 products from 18 SNIA Member companies are certified as conformant to SMI-S 1.0.2. 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. 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 , Switch es, 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. Providers 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). Providers can be disk arrays, host bus adapters, switches, tape drives, etc. SMI TIMELINE
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