Twenty-year SNIA veteran Mike Walker has created a series of videos titled “SMI-S Quick Start Guides” that provides developers using the SMI-S storage management specification instructions on how to find useful information in a SMI-S server using the python-based PyWBEM open source tool.
“Using the PyWBEM tool, I created a set of mock SMI-S 1.8 servers which I have shared with the world on GitHub,” said Walker. “I also created a set of PDFs called ‘Quick Start Guides’ and a series of videos demonstrating some of the most recent capabilities of the SMI-S 1.8 specification. Storage equipment vendors and management software vendors seeking to address the day-to-day tasks of the IT environment can use this information to work with SMI-S 1.8.”
The first two videos of this series now available on the SNIA Video YouTube channel are listed below. Be sure to check back or subscribe to the SNIA Video YouTube channel for future video installments.
• A short trailer explaining the content you can expect to see in the series here.
• A SNIA SMI-S Storage Management Spec. Mockups, Installation and Setup video here.
The Quick Start Guide PDFs and a set of mock WBEM servers that support SMI-S 1.8 storage management servers can be found on GitHub here. You can also learn more about PyWBEM here.
About the SMI-S Storage Management Specification
SMI-S was first approved as an ISO standard in 2002. Today, it has been implemented in over 1,350 storage products that provide access to common storage management functions and features.
During its lifetime, several versions of the SMI-S standard have been approved by ISO. The current international standard for SMI-S was based on SMI-S v1.5, which was completed in 2011, submitted for ISO approval in 2012, and formally adopted in 2014 as the latest revision of ISO/IEC 24775.
SMI-S 1.8 rev 5 was sent to ISO as an update to ISO/IEC 24775 and is expected to become an internationally recognized standard in the first half of 2021. SMI-S 1.8 rev 5 is the recommended and final version of the specification as no further updates are planned.
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