Prior to assembling the multiswitch demo, each of the vendors ran their systems through a SANmark verification test. However, vendors that tested with Finisar's protocol analyzer, which included Brocade and Inrange, failed when tested on I-Tech's. Conversely, those that used the Finisar equipment -- Cisco, McData, and QLogic -- failed on the I-Tech test. Industry officials say Finisar and I-Tech are working together to iron out the kinks.
Meanwhile, the 19-vendor CIM-SAN 2 demonstration here shows systems and software working together using SNIA's Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), which is based on the Common Information Model (CIM) standard developed by the Distributed Management Task Force. The group released the first version of SMI-S this week in an 600-page [ed. note: lordy!] doc (see SNIA Releases SMI-S Version 1).
"Vendors can start building support for CIM into their products now that the first version of the standard is set," says DiCenzo.
SNIA is increasingly acting like a standards body, but DiCenzo says it still hasn't decided whether it will officially become one, which would involve getting accreditation from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). "We'll make that decision in a month," he says.
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