EMC has announced its continued commitment to interoperability and customer ease of use in support of open standards for storage management. EMC has completed early implementation of key profiles and features of the Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) version 1.2 for 36 current and previous models of its EMC Symmetrix and EMC CLARiiON storage arrays.
EMC is one of the first vendors to implement the new SMI-S v1.2 profiles and features including Block Storage Views, Storage Server Asymmetry and Volume Composition. EMC has also upgraded its existing SMI-S v1.1 profiles to the requirements of the v1.2 specification and added platform-specific extensions beyond what is required by SMI-S. This upgrade offers customers access to additional rich management features within EMC's arrays. Collectively, EMC storage platforms are open to be managed by any SMI-S-compliant storage management application, including EMC ControlCenter software.
"As a forerunner and leading supporter of open standards, EMC is committed to helping its customers and the SNIA advance SMI-S by developing and implementing complete, feature-rich profiles into its products," said Jeff Nick, EMC's Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. "EMC is moving ahead aggressively to help accelerate SMI-S momentum and to be a catalyst for widespread adoption of the specification in end-user environments."
EMC storage platforms implementing the latest SMI-S v1.1 and v1.2 profiles offer new enhancements that expose a range of rich device management features. These features include Block Storage Views, Storage Server Asymmetry, Volume Composition, Access Points, Block Server Performance, Disk Drive Lite, Extent Composition, FC Initiator Ports , FC Target Ports, iSCSI Target Ports , Location, Masking and Mapping, Multiple Computer System and Software.
The following EMC storage platforms support the latest SMI-S updates and improvements:
- EMC Symmetrix systems: Symmetrix DMX Series (DMX-3, DMX-2, DMX-1), and Symmetrix 8000 Series.
- EMC CLARiiON systems: CX3 Series, CX Series and AX Series.
- EMC ControlCenter software: Supports SMI-S v1.1 profiles. To learn more about SMI-S support in ControlCenter, visit: http://www.snia.org/ctp/smi_conform/smi_client_emc
EMC encourages customers wishing to update their EMC products immediately with the latest SMI-S profiles to contact their EMC support representative and request EMC SMI-S Provider v3.2. Customers can also perform their own upgrades by obtaining the software through the EMC Powerlink web portal: http://www.emc.com/partnersalliances/powerlink/index.jsp.
EMC will demonstrate the new SMI-S capabilities in its products as part of the Storage Management Solution Center at Storage Networking World Spring, April 16-19 in San Diego . General information on SMI-S can be found on the SNIA web site at: www.snia.org/smi. |
