Conformance test suite for SNIA

NEW DELHI: HCL Technologies has announced that it has completed the development of SMI-S Conformance Test Suite 1.0.2 for the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). As part of its initiatives to promote industry standards, simplify the management of heterogeneous storage networks, and offer enterprises greater interoperability, SNIA rolled out the second phase of its Conformance Test Suite for Storage Management Initiative-Specification (SMI-S) prior to the Storage Networking World, Fall 2004 in Orlando, FL.

SNIA partnered with HCL Technologies to develop the SNIA-Conformance Testing Program (CTP) 1.0 test suite, which covered Server, Array, Fabric, and Switch profiles. SNIA had launched phase 1 of the SMI-S in April 2004.

According to the press release, the current SNIA-CTP 1.0.2 release is another step towards adding greater functionality in SMI-S compliant management products and will facilitate increased adoption by independent software vendors (ISVs), end-users, and internal development teams. This SNIA-CTP release covers two additional profiles, namely, In-band Virtualization and FC HBA, additional tests such as Reference/ Reference Names Check, Property List Check in Associations and enhanced security support for HTTPS and SSL. Remote self-certification feature will enable already certified vendors to achieve SNIA-CTP certification for subsequent releases without the need to ship their equipment to the SNIA Technology Center.

"SMI-S is slowly but steadily gaining momentum, and we are currently working with leading storage networking companies to enable them to develop SMI-S-compliant products quickly and in a cost-effective manner," said HCL Technologies COO S Raman.