If you haven’t caught the new wave in storage management, it’s time to dive in and catch up on the latest developments of the SNIA Swordfish™ specification.
First, a quick recap.
SNIA Swordfish is the storage extension to the DMTF Redfish® specification providing customer-centric, easy integration of scalable storage management solutions. This unified, RESTful approach provides IT administrators, DevOps and others the ability to manage storage equipment, data services and servers in converged, hyperconverged, hyperscale or cloud infrastructure environments as well as traditional data centers.
So, what’s new?
SNIA Swordfish v1.1.0b is now a SNIA Technical Position, available for immediate download here. This version of the specification has been updated to include Features and Profiles. There are significant enhancements in volumes, storage pools and consistency groups to support management for all scale of devices, from direct-attach to external storage. We have also moved the class of service functionality to become a value-added, optional feature set. The 1.1.0b version also includes a new type of schema that enables the Redfish Device Enablement (RDE) over PLDM Specification. Please see the release bundle for full v1.1.0b change details.
Get involved!
If you’re still feeling left behind, we’d love to take you deep-sea fishing. There are several ways you can speed your Swordfish implementation:
- Join SNIA’s Scalable Storage Management Technical Working Group (SSM TWG) and help shape future revisions of Swordfish. Send us an email at storagemanagement@snia.org.
- Download the Swordfish User’s Guide here and the Swordfish Practical Guide here.
- Watch the Swordfish School Videos on our YouTube channel here.
- Check out the Swordfish Open Source Tools on SNIA’s GitHub here.
- Your one-stop place for all Swordfish information is http://www.snia.org/swordfish.