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DMTF Tutorial > Management Initiatives > SMI
The Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) was formed in 1997 to accelerate adoption of storage network technology. The SNIA membership includes a wide range of software and device vendors covering all areas of storage technology. The SNIA actively promotes expanding the breadth, depth and quality of the storage network market through its definition of management standards, educational offerings and its interoperability testing lab. The SNIA is the governing body of the Storage Management Initiative (SMI). The Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) is an ANSI standard, defined by the SMI and based on the DMTF CIM and WBEM standards, that provides storage vendors with a common information model and management interface that enables interoperable management of heterogeneous storage network environments. The SMI-S defines Management Profiles for various components of storage networks including RAID Disk Arrays, Fabrics, SAN Switches, HBAs, Storage Libraries, Self-contained NAS and NAS Head systems, Storage Virtualizers and Volume Managers. Additional management capabilities for these devices are defined in Management Subprofiles that address firmware installation, zoning configuration, data backup and restore, logical unit management, asynchronous event notification, target and initiator ports, masking and mapping, and device statistics. Additionally, the SNIA hosts and operates the SMI-Lab which coordinates development and testing efforts at its headquarters in Colorado Springs, CO. To ensure that conformant implementations of the SMI-S reach end-users, SNIA defined the SMI Conformance Test Program (SMI CTP) to validate storage device and management application vendors' conformance to the standard. For more information about the SNIA and SMI, please refer to the SMI Tutorials at
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