Storage Networking
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Industry
Association
DMTF APTS Update
July 24, 2012
Agenda
Overview of SNIA
Technical Highlights
Recent Technical News
Additional Resources
SNIA At A Glance
www.snia.org
Voice of the storage industry representing approximately
$50-60B in worldwide revenue for hardware and software
Founded in 1997 as a non-profit trade association
SNIA is an international consortia with affiliates world-wide
ANZ, Brazil, China, Europe, India, Japan, Malaysia, South Asia
Technology Center activities in Colorado
Focus on education, conferences, specifications / standards,
software, industry alliances, best practices, plug-fests, and
conformance testing for SNIA specifications
Co-owner of Storage Networking World (SNW) conference
with Computerworld/IDG Enterprise: USA, Europe, China
Produces the annual Storage Developer Conference and other
hot topic conferences (e.g. Cloud, Data Protection, Big Data)
A collaborative environment and serves as global contributors
toward the advancement of standards, education, and
innovation in the storage and information management industry
SNIA Track Record on
Technical Work
CDMI Specification
CDMI Reference
Implementation
SMI-S Specification - ANSI INCITS
388-2011, ISO/IEC 24775:2007
MMA Specification - ANSI INCITS
412-2006, ISO/IEC 11002:2008
IMA Specification - ANSI INCITS
411-2007)
HBA API, transferred to T11
XAM Specification - ANSI INCITS
464-2010
XAM SDK, NDMP SDK
DDF Specification
Storage Security Best
Practices, correlates to
CISSP professional
certification
Solid State Storage
Performance Measurement
Specification, improves
industry use case
expectations
Green Storage Energy
Measurement Specification,
input to upcoming EPA
ENERGY STAR Specification
SNIA Technical Work Groups
Cloud Storage
SNIA Cloud Storage Activities
Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI)
The Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) defines the functional
interface that applications can use to create, retrieve, update and
delete data elements from the Cloud. As part of this interface, the
client can discover the capabilities of the cloud storage offering and
use this interface to manage containers and the data that is placed in
them. In addition, metadata can be set on containers and their
contained data elements through this interface.
CDMI Reference Implementation
Java based, uses any POSIX filesystem
Open Source License (BSD)
Cloud Plugfests
Plugfests held to test CDMI and OCCI implementations
Future feature candidates for
CDMI
CIMI
Copy Range
Data Affinity
Domain Auth Methods
Domain Summary for Bandwidth
Expiring ACE
Fixity Metadata
Group Storage System Metadata
Jobs
Maximum Value Transferred
Multi-part MIME
OVF Extension
Self-Storage Management
Versioning CDMI
Other miscellaneous items – suggest more!
Green Storage
Green Storage Activities
Green Storage Power Efficiency Measurement Specification
Identifies metrics by which energy consumption and efficiency of
storage networking products can be measured for the purposes of
new product development, end-user customer evaluation, and
regulatory standards development.
EPA Energy Star Program
SNIA is actively engaged with the EPA ENERGY STAR Program on
development of an ENERGY STAR Data Center Storage Specification.
SNIA Emerald Program
GSI (Green Storage Initiative) has developed a test methodology and
metric for measuring the power used by storage systems.
Solid State Storage
Solid State Storage Activities
Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification
The SNIA has developed methods which enable manufacturers to set,
and customers to compare, the performance specifications of Solid
State Storage devices, which are evolving with the state of the
technology. These specifications define a set of device level tests and
methodologies which enable comparative testing of Solid State Storage
devices for Enterprise and Client systems.
Storage Management
Storage Management Initiative
Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S)
SMI-S 1.6.0 has been published
http://www.snia.org/smis
SMI-S 1.5.0 has gone to ISO to become the next International version
Work on SMI-S 1.6 Addenda are in progress
Work on SMI-S 2.0 has begun
Supports the use of any WBEM protocol
SMI-S and DMTF
SMI-S provides management of storage using WBEM and CIM Schema
E.g., SMI-S 1.5.0 was based on CIM 2.23 and SMI-S 1.6.0 is based on CIM 2.29
SMI-S uses or specializes a number of DMTF Profiles
E.g., PRP, Base Server, Fan, Power Supply, Indications, etc
A number of DMTF Profiles reference SMI-S Profiles
E.g., Disk Drive Diagnostics, System Virtualization, etc.
SMI-S Implementation Support
SMI-Lab Program
Provides a lab environment and a community that supports SMI-S
implementation bring-up and interoperability testing
Members are encouraged to install and maintain SMI-S enabled
equipment in SMI-Lab, for local use and for remote use via VPN
Plugfest events are held several times a year to allow vendors to
collaborate on interoperability issues in a lab environment
Conformance Test Program (CTP)
Provides an impartial validation that an SMI-S implementation passes
an established set of tests for an identified set of SMI-S profiles
Passing implementations are certified and listed on the public web site
http://www.snia.org/ctp
Testing for up to SMI-S 1.5 functionality is now available
Recent Technical News
SNIA Technical News
New Technical Work Groups
Linear Tape File System (LTFS) TWG
The Linear Tape File System Technical Work Group works on the
development of SNIA Architecture related to the on-tape format for
LTFS.
Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Programming TWG
The NVM Programming TWG was created for the purpose of
accelerating availability of software enabling NVM (Non–Volatile
Memory) hardware. The TWG creates specifications which provide
guidance to operating system, device driver, and application
developers. These specifications are vendor agnostic and support all
the NVM technologies of member companies.
Additional Information
tcmd@snia.org
SNIA Technical News
New Standards Published
Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification Client v1.1
The SNIA has developed methods which enable manufacturers to set,
and customers to compare, the performance specifications of Solid
State Storage devices, which are evolving with the state of the
technology. These specifications define a set of device level tests and
methodologies which enable comparative testing of Solid Sate Storage
devices for Enterprise and Client systems.
http://www.snia.org/pts
SNIA Technical News
New Standards Published
Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) v1.6 rev 4
SMI-S defines a method for the interoperable management of a
heterogeneous Storage Area Network (SAN), and describes the
information available to a WBEM Client from an SMI-S compliant CIM
Server and an object-oriented, XML-based, messaging-based interface
designed to support the specific requirements of managing devices in
and through SANs
http://www.snia.org/smis
SNIA Technical News
New Standards Published
Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) v1.0.2
The Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) defines the functional
interface that applications will use to create, retrieve, update and
delete data elements from the Cloud. As part of this interface the
client will be able to discover the capabilities of the cloud storage
offering and use this interface to manage containers and the data that
is placed in them. In addition, metadata can be set on containers and
their contained data elements through this interface.
Currently going through final ISO approval ballot!
http://www.snia.org/cdmi
SNIA Technical News
Technical White Paper Published
Architectural Model for Data Integrity v1.0
This document describes a model for how data integrity can be
protected between an Application client and a storage device. If all
nodes in an implementation follow this model then there will be endto-end data protection for the following class of data integrity errors:
silent data corruption, wrong address on device and buffer corruption.
http://snia.org/tech_activities/standards/whitepapers
SNIA Technical News
New Public Review Releases
DRAFT CDMI Extensions and Profiles
The Cloud Storage TWG is adding new functionality to CDMI by publishing individual
extensions the CDMI standard. These can be implemented as needed in conjunction with a
CDMI implementation to add new functionality before the next release of CDMI. As
implementation experience is gained and interoperable implementations are tested, these
extensions will be made part of the next release of CDMI. In addition the TWG is publishing
profiles of CDMI that scope it down to specific use cases based on different types of clouds.
Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) v1.6 Addenda
SMI-S defines a method for the interoperable management of a heterogeneous Storage Area
Network (SAN), and describes the information available to a WBEM Client from an SMI-S
compliant CIM Server and an object-oriented, XML-based, messaging-based interface
designed to support the specific requirements of managing devices in and through SANs.
www.snia.org/publicreview
SNIA Technical News
PCIe SSD Taskforce
PCIe SSD Taskforce
Charter
Provide guidance to the marketplace on PCIe SSDs. This can take the form of
educational materials, best practices documents and SNIA standards.
Coordinate with other industry organizations involved in PCIe SSD-related
activities. Stay consistent with the messaging developed by these organizations and
do not reinvent materials, when such materials already exist and are accessible.
The Taskforce is structured as an open industry forum for the initial 90 days of
existence, and thereafter as a SSSI committee. No NDA is required and thus no
confidential information should be shared amongst the members of the taskforce.
Taskforce is investigating potential areas of new technical work
http://www.snia.org/forums/sssi/pcie
Storage Developer Conference 2012
Save the Date!
Conference Dates: September 17-20, 2012
Conference Venue: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Santa Clara, CA
Now in its ninth year, and again expected to draw more than 300 developers
and engineers, the Storage Developer Conference (SDC) is the only event
created by storage developers for storage developers.
SDC provides the information and know-how to further advance solutions
with features that shorten time to market for a developed solution, increase
acceptability and interoperability in production environments, and help
participants understand where storage technologies are heading. In addition,
plans are being finalized for another successful CIFS/SMB/2/3 Plugfest and
Cloud Plugfest.
Where the Storage Development Community Connects!
www.storagedeveloper.org
Important SNIA Links
Standards Portfolio: http://www.snia.org/standards/
Software Portfolio: http://www.snia.org/software/
Public Review Page: http://www.snia.org/publicreview/
Public Feedback Portal: http://www.snia.org/feedback/
SNIA Dictionary: http://www.snia.org/dictionary/
Cloud Activity News: http://www.snia.org/cloud/
I/O Traces, Tools and Analysis Repository: http://iotta.snia.org
Storage Developer Conference: http://www.storagedeveloper.org
SNIA Meetings at DMTF APTS
NVM Programming TWG
Tuesday
Green Storage TWG
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
Cloud Storage TWG
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
SMI-S Technical Steering Group (TSG)
Tuesday and Wednesday
Questions?