If you haven’t caught the new wave in storage management, it’s time to dive in and catch up on the latest developments of the SNIA Swordfish™ specification. These include: - Expanded support for NVMe and NVMe-oF Devices - Managing Storage Fabrics - Standardized Capacity and Performance Metrics Management

The SNIA Swordfish Conformance Test Program enables manufacturers to test their products with a vendor-neutral test suite and validate conformance to the SNIA Swordfish specification. Swordfish implementations that have passed CTP are posted on the SNIA website; this information is available to help ease integration concerns of storage developers and increase demand for available Swordfish products. This session will provide an overview of the program, what functionality implementations and base requirements are needed for implementations to pass Swordfish CTP.

HPE will provide an overview of their experience developing an initial Swordfish implementation. This session will provide an overview of lessons learned through the initial proof-of-concept through development phases and will include recommendations to other implementers of areas that may require additional focus.

Large-scale cluster storage systems contain hundreds-of-thousands of hard disk drives in their primary storage tier. Since the clusters are not built all at once, there is significant heterogeneity among the disks in terms of their capacity, make/model, firmware, etc. Redundancy settings for data reliability are generally configured in a “one-scheme-fits-all” manner assuming that this heterogeneous disk population has homogeneous reliability characteristics.

The SNIA Swordfish™ ecosystem is broader than just the specification. This session will provide an overview an overview of the various tools and programs to help developers accelerate both implementation and adoption of Swordfish. This includes demonstrating the interactive nature of tools, schema, and development, by leveraging the testing done by other tools, such as schema validation, implementation conformance testing throughout the development cycle.

DMTF’s Redfish® is a standard API designed to deliver simple and secure management for converged, hybrid IT and the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). This presentation will provide an overview of DMTF’s Redfish standard. It will also provide an overview HPE’s implementation of Redfish, focusing on their storage implementation and needs. HPE will provide insights into the benefits and challenges of the Redfish Storage model, including areas where functionality added to SNIA™ Swordfish is of interest for future releases.

Google will provide an overview of their experience developing Redfish and Swordfish client applications. This session will provide an overview of lessons learned through the initial proof-of-concept through development phases and will include recommendations to both client and storage vendor implementers of areas that may require additional focus.

If you haven’t caught the new wave in storage management, it’s time to dive in. This presentation provides a broad look at the Redfish and Swordfish ReSTful hierarchies, maps these to some common applications, and provides an overview of the Swordfish tools and documentation ecosystem developed by SNIA’s Scalable Storage Management Technical Work Group (SSM TWG) and the Redfish Forum. It will also provide an overview of what’s new in ’22, including enhancements to NVMe support, storage fabric management, and capacity and performance metric management.

NVMe-oF drives can support NVMe over ethernet, but how do you manage them? This presentation will show how Swordfish has developed a standard model for NVMe ethernet-attached drives, providing detailed profiles as guidance for implementations including required and recommended properties. This presentation will also cover the new features to support the latest version of the Native NVMe-oF™ Drive Specification.

The SSM TWG and OFA OFMFWG are working together to bring to life an open-source Open Fabric Management Framework, with a Redfish/Swordfish management model and interface. This presentation will provide an overview of the status of this work, and a demo of the current state of the proof of concept, built leveraging the Redfish and Swordfish-based open-source emulator.