SNIA announces new alliance for standards to manage SSD

• SNIA and the DMTF have worked together as part of the DMTF’s Alliance Partner program for many years. Most recently, to extend DMTF’s Redfish® API to define the SNIA’s Swordfish™ standard for management of storage equipment and services.
• NVM Express® is an open collection of standards and information to fully expose the benefits of non-volatile memory (NVM) in all types of computing environments from mobile to data center.

The alliance’s collaborative work will include the following standards:

• By extending the DMTF Redfish API protocol and schema, the SNIA Swordfish customer-centric interface helps provide a unified approach for the management of storage equipment, data services, and servers in converged, hyper-converged, hyperscale and cloud infrastructure environments.
• NVM Express™ (NVMe™) is the register interface and command set for PCI Express attached storage with industry standard software available for numerous operating systems. The NVM Express™ Management Interface (NVMe-MI™) is the command set and architecture for management of NVM Express storage (e.g., discovering, monitoring, and updating NVMe devices using a BMC).
• DMTF’s Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) is a protocol and Platform Level Data Model (PLDM) is a low-level data model that is defined by the DMTF Platform Management Components Intercommunications (PMCI) Working Group. MCTP is designed to support communications between different intelligent hardware components that make up a platform management subsystem that provides monitoring and control functions inside a managed system.
• DMTF’s PLDM for Redfish Device Enablement (RDE) defines messages and data structures used for enabling PLDM devices to participate in Redfish-based management without needing to support either JavaScript Object Notation (JSON, used for operation data payloads) or the [Secure] Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/HTTPS, used to transport and configure operations).