HP StorageWorks Command View SDM Installation and User Guide (T1086-96023, February 2005)

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Product Description
HP StorageWorks SMI-S for Command View VA
disk arrays
Hewlett Packard supports the new storage standard called the Storage
Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S). Hewlett Packard is a contributing
member to the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), which is a
technical organization chartered to build seamless multi-vendor storage
management networks.
The SMI-S specification standardizes the interface for SAN management,
device control architectures and associated interfaces. The SMI-S specification
enables storage vendors to develop products to a single interface that
eliminates the need for custom integration by end users to integrate storage
devices into their environment.
To ensure that the standard has been properly implemented, SNIA has created
a series of independent third-party conformance tests that verify the accuracy
of the vendor’s implementation. Hewlett Packard was one of the first storage
vendors to successfully exit the SNIA conformance testing program.
Secondary benefits of Hewlett-Packard’s support for SMI-S are:
■ Simplification of your storage management environment enabling you to
focus on your business not managing your storage
■ Reduction in cost to deploy new storage technologies by reducing the need
for dedicated staff experts for each storage vendor’s solution
■ Increased stability of new storage technologies resulting is greater
confidence to implement these technologies
■ Minimize contention between vendors
■ Ability to implement larger storage infrastructures with current staff
For white papers or technical discussions on the SMI-S standard, please go to:
http://www.snia.org/smi/home.