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Overview of the Testing and Submittal process

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To publish data about one of your company's systems, follow these steps:

  1. Obtain a copy of the Measurement Specification and familiarize yourself with it. You may also wish to download the user guide.
     
  2. Verify that the system under consideration (called the System Under Test, or SUT in the specification) is currently for sale by your company, and available for order by customers in the configuration you wish to test.
     
  3. Determine the taxonomy category the SUT is in, using the information in the spec, or the taxonomy links on this site.
     
  4. Verify that you and your company are able to comply with the Terms governing submission of data to the Emerald program.
     
  5. Find out if you will need to pay for your submittal. If your company is a member of the SNIA Green Storage Initiative (GSI), you may already have several free submittal entitlements. If you don't have any of these available, you need to purchase one or more submittal entitlements from the SNIA. See the Program Fees page for more information. This can be done via credit card, check or purchase order.
     
  6. Run the tests on the SUT following the directions in the spec.
     
  7. Download and review the Test Data Report Template. This is an Excel spreadsheet set up as an input and display form for your data. Choose the version of the template that goes with the version of the Measurement Specifcation that you use.

    Fill in the form by typing in the light green and yellow input fields, then submit it via the web site. The SNIA Emerald Program Director vets the submittal, gives it a permanent tracking number, assigns it to the "provisional" state, saves it as a PDF, and publishes it on the Emerald website. 

    The Test Data Report that is published with your data is substantively the same document as the one that you submit. Keep this in mind when formatting and entering items. The mandatory entries on the sheet are the green input fields. Yellow fields are for data that is not mandatory but highly encouraged by the GSI. For example, giving data sheet power numbers for disk drives and shelves allows your customers to make simple power calculator calculations without the overhead of obtaining and running a special tool.
     

  8. Gather your data, fill in the Test Data Report template, and submit it via the website.