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SNIA’s Storage

Management

Initiative

Specification

Is a storage standard developed and maintained by the Storage Networking Industry Association

(SNIA). SMI-S defines CIM management profiles for storage systems. The complete SMI

Specification is categorized in profiles and subprofiles. A profile describes the behavioral aspects

of an autonomous, self-contained management domain. SMI-S includes profiles for Arrays,

Switches, Storage Virtualizers, Volume Management and many other domains.

Storage Area

Network

A dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block level data storage. SANs are

primarily used to make storage devices, such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes,

accessible to servers so that the devices appear like locally attached devices to the operating

system.

Storage device A storage system consisting of one or more storage controllers and the disk drives they manage.

Topology An interconnection scheme that allows multiple servers and storage devices to communicate.

Arbitrated loop and switched fabric are examples of Fibre Channel topologies.

WWN World Wide Name. A unique Fibre Channel identifier consisting of a 16-character hexadecimal

number. A WWN is required for each Fibre Channel communication port.

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