SMI-Lab Program

The program has been successful in providing an environment that manages and coordinates vendors' development efforts to deliver SMI-S compliant products to market. Since April, 2004, SMI-Lab has enabled numerous companies to pass the SMI-S CTP tests to get hundreds of products certified.

The SNIA's Storage Management Initiative (SMI) was created by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) to develop and standardize interoperable storage management technologies and aggressively promote them to the storage, networking and end user communities. The SMI is developing a highly functional and interoperable management interface for multi-vendor storage networking products and will drive the following activities within the SNIA organization:

• Technology Development via the Storage Management Specification (SMI-S)
• Testing of products utilizing the work being done in the Conformance Test Programs (CTP) area
• Outbound marketing, education and training managed by the SMI Marketing Subcommittee
• Structured SMI-Lab Plugfests

SMI plugfests are held several times a year at the SNIA US Technology Center in Colorado Springs to test interoperability across SMI-S implementations, validate CTP test updates, and create proof-of-concept implementations of proposals for inclusion in the SMI-S standard. In addition, plugfests provide an opportunity to meet with peer developers and folks supporting commonly used CIMOMs.

SMI-Lab 12 Plugfest #2 is scheduled for March 26 - 29, 2012. >>> Register to attend!

SMI-Lab 12 Plugfest Dates for  2012:

• Plugfest #1 - January 30 - February 2: "Indication Fest"
• Plugfest #2 - March 26 - 29 (revised date)
• Plugfest #3 - May 21 - 24 (revised date)
• Plugfest #4 - August 6 - 9
• Plugfest #5 - October 22 - 25

• Plugfest #6 - December 3 - 6 (if needed)

SMI-Lab 11 Plugfests Held in 2011:

• Plugfest #1 January 31-February 3 -- View Plugfest #1 Report.
• Plugfest #2 March 28-31 -- View Plugfest #2 Report.
• Plugfest #3 May 23-26 -- View Plugfest #3 Report
• Plugfest #4 August 8-11 -- View Plugfest #4 Report
• Plugfest #5 October 17-20 -- View Plugfest #5 Report

 SMI-Lab Member companies include:

Contact:  Tom Mancuso, Senior Program Manager, SMI

 SMI-Lab 10 Plugfests held at the SNIA US Technology Center in 2010:

• Plugfest #1 February 22–26, 2010 -- View Plugfest #1 Report. 
• Plugfest #2 May 24–28, 2010  -- View Plugfest #2 Report.
• Plugfest #3 August 16–20, 2010 -- View Plugfest #3 Report
• Plugfest #4 October 25–29, 2010  -- View Plugfest #4 Report