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.

Firmware update, security management and initial system provisioning need to be performed at scale, which is a challenge for many environments. Standards-based Management is essential for interoperability between the components required for large-scale deployments. Standards-based out-of-band mechanisms such as MCTP and NVMe-MI provide the basic functionality but need Swordfish to provide the client interface and scalability. Implementations have been developed as open source and upstreamed to integrate between these two layers.

Composable disaggregated infrastructures provide a promising solution to addressing the provisioning and computational efficiency limitations, as well as hardware and operating costs, of integrated, siloed systems. But how do we solve these problems in an open, standards-based way? The Sunfish project, a collaboration between DMTF, SNIA, the OFA, and the CXL™ Consortium to provide elements of the overall solution, with Redfish® and SNIA Swordfish™ manageability providing the standards-based interface.

The first Redfish and Swordfish standards appeared in 2015 and 2016. The first Redfish and Swordfish open-source implementations showed up in 2019. There are implementations that fit in the BMC, as well as software implementations, such as python, C++ and golang that run on top of an operating system. This session will provide a survey of these implementations.

SNIA Swordfish® provides a comprehensive standards-based interface to manage scalable storage. This presentation provides a broad look at the 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).