SMI – Storage Management Initiative
The SNIA's Storage Management Initiative (SMI) was created by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) to develop and standardize interoperable storage management technologies and aggressively promote them to the storage, networking and end user communities.
A key deliverable for the SMI is the development and promotion of the industry’s first standard interface for storage management – the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S).
SMI-S is based on the Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) architecture and the Common Information Model (CIM), both pioneered by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF).
The SMI-S standard has been accredited by the INCITS ANSI fast track program and is the first specification to go through the accreditation process without dissenting comments from the reviewers. This is a testimony to the diligence performed by the SMI team in preparing the specification document for ratification. The name of the formal standard is ANSI INCITS 388-2004, American National Standard for Information Technology – Storage.
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