SMI Futures

Future revisions of the SMI Specification (SMI-S) will extend the interoperable, distributed management capabilities defined in SMI-S 1.0.3 and 1.1.0. At a high-level these management capabilities will target basic data management and advanced systems management. The following is an overview of the targeted management areas for SMI-S 1.2.0. Note that the specific areas addressed in SMI-S 1.2.0 are subject to change.

Configuration

Port Configuration - including Parallel, Serial ATA, Serial Attached SCSI, Direct Attached, Parallel SCSI and iSCSI ports.
Tape Transport Administration - including Inter-Library port management.
Tape Library Partitioning - including Virtual Library port management.
FC Performance Management - including Fabric Path management.
FC Switch Management - including firmware, firmware repository and configuration management.
FC Management - including Extender management.
In-band Discovery
Operating System Management - including disk partitioning and SCSI multipath management.

Provisioning and Trending

Virtualization Management
Host Volume Management
Policy-based Array Management

Security

Scalability
Authorization
Role-based Access Control
3rd Party Authentication
Credential Management
Identity Management
Resource Ownership

Compliance and Cost Management

Distributed Policy

Event Management

Tape Library
Alert Events

Data Protection

Tape Transport