SMI-S storage Management (SNIA)

[dharders]

For storage discovery the standard is SMI-S. Allthough it is more a enterprise feature, this could be very usefull in combination with ISCSI-3 PR and Hyper-V Clusters. For more info on the standard: http://www.snia.org/forums/smi/

[clewster]

i know this is a bit old but +1 will come in very useful espacly for a VMM 2012 lab

[kobusdb]

+1 SMI support on QNAP would be great. Especially now that SCVMM2012 is around the corner any many techies are already evaluating the beta versions. I am having challenges to get VMM2012 to see my remote storage. Could be me but so far it seems that SMI support would have helped

[coolman]

after struggling to connect the QNAP to SC VMM 2012 , I just figured out that this is the problem !
this will be a disappointing news to my managers

I hope this feature got implemented ASAP !

[edwardpoe]

+1

[allgoodthings]

Definite +1 from me; SCVMM 2012 + SMI-S + QNAP = one very intelligent, cost-effective solution!

[ateece]

We also use VMM 2008 extensively and will rollout the 2012 edition pretty soon. As we only bought our TS-879U-RP last week to run Hyper-V we would definately like to have SMI-S!

+1 from us!

[hector.linares]

Hello QNAP team,

My name is Hector Linares. I am a program manager on the Virtual Machine Manager team. I own the storage automation feature set for the product. Feel free to reach out to me if you would like to discuss SMI-S requirements.

Here is a great overview of SMI-S support in VMM 2012 and upcoming Windows Server 8 release: http://blogs.technet.com/b/hectorl/arch ... ement.aspx

[Moogle Stiltzkin]

sorry for sounding clueless but what is smi-s for actually ?

[edwardpoe]

sorry for sounding clueless but what is smi-s for actually ?

SMI-S is a vendor-neutral storage management framework. Imagine managing and monitoring storage systems from multiple vendors from a single management platform.

http://www.snia.org/forums/smi/tech_programs/smis_home

[Moogle Stiltzkin]

thx.... interesting. thx for the explanation

[NoirFry]

+1
yeah, need it too for SC VMM 2012

[Hepper]

+1

Yes, would be very useful for SCVMM 2012

[ejk2012]

Any update on this? SCVMM 2012 was released recently and as expected can't add my TS-859U+ as a storage provider. Running Version 3.5.1.

Thanks

[tmac2012]

This would be very help to have this available for SCVMM2012 ... is it really that hard ...