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Designing Hyper-V Solutions

By : Saurabh Grover, Goran Svetlecic
Book Image

Designing Hyper-V Solutions

By: Saurabh Grover, Goran Svetlecic

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Designing Hyper-V Solutions
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

SMI-S


Storage Management Initiative Specification, better known as SMI-S, is a SNIA standard that facilitates the management of storage devices from multiple vendors in a storage area network. Microsoft is party to the SMI-S workgroups, and has worked in collaboration with many storage vendors to develop providers and extend the capabilities of storage discovery and provisioning to Microsoft applications and platforms.

SMI-S integration was first added in System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, and the later in Windows Server 2012. The suite continued with R2 (short for Release 2) of both the products.

Figure 5-21: The Windows Standards-Based Storage Management Feature

The Windows Standards-Based Storage Management service was first used by VMM 2012 and later added to Windows Server 2012. It allows users to interface with the SMI-S provider from vendors. The storage service gets activated with the installation of VMM 2012 and R2, but with Windows Server 2012 and R2, this is an optional...