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Description / Abstract:
The Fabric Part of the Storage Management Technical
Specification defines management profiles for Autonomous (top
level) profiles for programs and devices whose central function is
providing support for storage networking.
This version of the Fabric Part of the Storage Management
Technical Specification includes four autonomous profiles:
• Fabric
This profile defines the model and functions of a storage
network including topology and zoning control.
• Switch
This profile defines the model and functions of a Fibre Channel
Switch including state, status, and control of the device and its
connections and product information,
• Extender
This profile defines the model and functions of a networking
device that allows for fibre channel to be extended over other
networks, and specifically over IP (FCIP).
• iSCSI to FC Gateway
This profile defines the model and funct