SNIA Swordfish® provides a comprehensive standards-based interface to manage scalable storage. This presentation provides a broad look at the Swordfish ReSTful hierarchies, maps these to some common applications, and provides an overview of the Swordfish tools and documentation ecosystem developed by SNIA’s Scalable Storage Management Technical Work Group (SSM TWG). It will also provide an overview added in the 1.2.5a release, including enhancements to metrics for volumes, drives, and storage controllers, as well as support for NVMe SMART Metrics, enhanced NVMe-oF discovery controller capabilities managing NVMe-oF centralized discovery controllers. The presentation will also provide pointers to get started working with Swordfish, as well as information on related programs, including the Swordfish Conformance Test Program.
Comprehensive SNIA Swordfish® Overview
- Learn about the latest in Swordfish features and functionality
- Understand the comprehensive components in the Swordfish ecosystem
- How to get started working with Swordfish
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The first Redfish and Swordfish standards appeared in 2015 and 2016. The first Redfish and Swordfish open-source implementations showed up in 2019.
Firmware update, security management and initial system provisioning need to be performed at scale, which is a challenge for many environments.
Composable disaggregated infrastructures provide a promising solution to addressing the provisioning and computational efficiency limitations, as well as hardware and operating costs, of integrated
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