SNIA Announces Vendors Passing Conformance Tests for SMI-S Version 1.4

In April, the SNIA announced that the first vendors have passed the Conformance Testing Program (SNIA-CTP) provider suite for the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) version 1.4. These vendors have demonstrated their commitment to interoperability – a full list of vendors with conforming products is published on the SNIA-CTP webpage.

The SNIA-CTP for SMI-S v1.4 introduces test results, reporting enhancements and expanded storage functionality tests. This version of the test suite also expands functionality tests to cover thin provisioning, remote copy services, host Redundant Array of independent Disk (RAID) controllers, virtual fabrics and partitioned fabric switches.

The reports now describe the tested functionality in terms of end-user goals, to help end-users determine whether the tested products provide the functionality they need. SNIA-CTP also now allows vendors to select one of three levels of testing, depending upon the capabilities of their equipment. One of these levels introduces the comprehensive testing of event reporting, which is a capability that allows Storage Resource Management applications to gracefully scale up to large, enterprise configurations.

For more information on SNIA-CTP, visit the SNIA Storage Management Initiative.