Background: NetApp's Participation in the
SNIA Organization
NetApp has been an active member of the Storage Networking Industry
Association (SNIA) since 1998, participating in a number of
Technical Working Groups and SNIA standards activities over the
years. NetApp representatives have also been active in various
leadership positions within SNIA Forums, including chair of the IP
Storage Forum for the past three years, as well as members of the
Storage Management Forum, Green Storage Initiative,
Storage Security, Data Protection Initiative, Data
De-Duplication and Space Reduction, and the Data Management Forum.
NetApp representatives also hold positions on the 2008 SNIA Vice
Chair, Board of Directors and the 2008 SNIA Vice Chair, Technical
Council.
In addition to membership in the Storage
Management Initiative (SMI), NetApp is heavily involved in a broad
range of the SNIA SMI-S activities, including active membership in
both SMI-related TWGs and the SMI Committee and regular
participation in SMI-Lab plugfests since 2002.
NetApp and SMI-S Support
The NetApp
Data ONTAP SMI-S Agent, which supports the entire line of NetApp
FAS systems and NetApp V-Series Virtualized storage systems, has
been certified by SNIA's Conformance Testing Program (CTP) suite
for compliance with SNIA's SMI-S v1.2 specification.
The functionality supported by the NetApp's
Data ONTAP SMI-S Agent includes features
supported via standard profiles as well as NetApp-specific
extensions.
Standard profiles support:
- Fibre Channel SAN functionality, including LUN creation,
mapping and masking, and reporting
- NAS functionality, including resource discovery (aggregates,
volumes, RAID groups, etc.) and system health monitoring
- iSCSI SAN functionality, including LUN creation and export, and
session and connection creation
- NetApp-specific extensions support
- Capacity utilization (in the context of multi-protocol storage
systems)
In order to download the Data ONTAP SMI-S
Agent, click here.