Information technology - Storage management - Part 7: Host elements

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Standards Development Organisation:
Canadian Standards Association (operating as CSA Group)
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Designation Number:
ISO/IEC 24775-7
Standard Type:
National Standard of Canada - Adoption of International Standard
Standard Development Activity:
New Standard
ICS code(s):
35.200
Status:
Proceeding to development
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Scope:

The host-base storage portion of the Storage Management Technical Specification defines management profiles for autonomous, component and abstract profiles for management of host-based storage devices.

The autonomous profiles describe the management of a stand-alone host-based storage entity. The component profiles describe management of aspects of host-based storage entities that may be used by other autonomous profiles. Finally, this section describes abstract profiles that may be used as a basis for creating additional Host-based autonomous profiles.

This version of the Host-based Storage portion of the Storage Management Technical Specification includes autonomous profiles:

• "The Host Discovered Resources Profile

This profile defines the model for the storage devices presented to an operating system running on a host computer system. In addition, this profile describes the map of storage associated to a host-computer system that a client application can discover.

• "The Fibre Channel HBA Profile

This profile defines the model and functions of a Fibre Channel HBA that exports block storage to a host computer system from a SAN device (Fibre Channel switch, array, tape library, etc.).

• iSCSI Initiator Profile

This profile defines the model and functions necessary to manage an iSCSI initiator. Component profiles used by autonomous profiles to describe aspects of host-based storage elements and services. The component profiles defined in this version of the specification include:

• Host Hardware RAID Controller Profile

This profile defines the model and functions of a host-based RAID controller that exports block storage to a host computer system from locally attached storage devices (internal hard drives, JBODs, etc.)

• Storage HBA Profile

This profile defines the model and functions of a SAS, SATA, SPI, or Fibre Channel HBA that exports storage to a host computer system from a SAN device (Fibre Channel switch, array, tape library, etc.).

• Disk Partition Profile

The Disk Partition profile models partition (or slice) configuration services provided by operating systems on some platforms.

• SB Multipath Management Profile

The SB Multipath Management Profile models paths (connections between host controllers and device ports) for environments supporting the SB (Single Byte) command protocol.

• SCSI Multipath Management Profile

The SCSI Multipath Management profile models paths (connections between host controllers, device ports, and logical units) for environments supporting the SCSI command protocol.

Project need:

To align Canadian requirements with those of the respective international standards being proposed for adoption and to maintain alignment between Canadian information and communication technology standards and each respective international standard. This proposed New Standard is being developed at the request of P123 – Technical Committee on Information Technology. It will provide the industry with the latest standards available in the ICT field.

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