SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Standards and Open Source
SNIA standards are used in open source projects in various stages of development.
- Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI)
- Linear Tape File System (LTFS)
- Non-volatile Memory Programing Model (NPM)
- Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification (PTS)
- Self-contained Information Retention Format (SIRF)
- Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S)
- eXtensible Access Method (XAM)
Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI)
| Project | Description |
| bCDMI | Simple Bash client for basic CDMI storage operations |
| CaDMIum | CaDMIum is a CDMI client java library |
| CDMI on OpenStack Swift implementation | A Python egg that adds support for the CDMI protocol to OpenStack Swift. |
| cdmi_shell | This utility provides a *nix like shell interface for CDMI. |
| cdmi_test_suite | A test suite for CDMI |
| cdmi-console | A console for cdmi compliant APIs. |
| cdmi-explorer | CDMI Explorer is a HTML/JS/AJAX browser-resident CDMI client that provides basic access to a CDMI server. |
| cdmifs | A FUSE based file system using the CDMI standard. (also see: cdmi-serve) |
| cdmi-serve | Serve files from a local filesystem using the CDMI protocol, a CDMI server. |
| cdmi-testsuite | This is a CDMI test suite. |
| CDMI-z | CDMI server implementation |
| CompatibleOne | Open Source Cloud Broker |
| crime | CDMI Reference IMplementation in Erlang |
| dCache/CDMI | dCache mirror of the official SNIA CDMI reference implementation. This repo may contain improvements not present in the original SNIA codebase |
| jsCDMI | CDMI Client written in AngularJS |
| libcdmi-java | CDMI client library implementation in Java |
| libcdmi-python | CDMI client library in Python |
| litong01/cdmi | CDMI on OpenStack Swift implementation |
| ocmi-tester | A TUI tester for OCCI and CDMI servers |
| openstack_cdmi_sdk | This project has a .net SDK for CDMI implementation over openstack swift |
| R2AD-Android-Cloud-Client | An open implemention of a management client which uses OCCI and CDMI specifications http://cloud.r2ad.net |
| R2AD-JavaFX-Cloud-Client | An open implemention of a management client which uses OCCI and CDMI specifications http://cloud.r2ad.net |
| snf-cdmi | CDMI v1.0.2 Server based on the Pithos+ storage backend |
| stoxy | STOrage proXY - CDMI compliant server |
| swift-cdmi | A CDMI implementation for OpenStack Swift on top of cdmi-spec CDMI Skeleton Server by @grnet |
| vcdm | CDMI-Proxy provides CDMI-compliant proxy server to public cloud backends. |
| vim-cdmi |
A VIM Plugin for that will load CDMI objects into a VIM buffer. The user can make changes to the object, and then write it back to the server. |
Linear Tape File System (LTFS)
| Project | Description |
| LTFSArchiver | Tools and services for LTFS, supporting libraries and manual drivers |
| ltfs-console | An LTFS Bash/Dialog console application for formatting, reading, writing LTFS LTO tapes. |
| ltopers | Scripts for doing stuff with ltfs |
Non-volatile Memory Programing Model (NPM)
| Project | Description |
| Linux kernel | File support for DAX (Direct access memory) |
| llinux-pmfs | Persistent Memory File System |
| lNVML | nvml: Linux NVM Library |
Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification (PTS)
| Project | Description |
| block-storage | Block storage test suite based on SNIA's Solid State Storage Performance Test Specification Enterprise v1.1 |
| ssd-test | SNIA PTS 1.1 (enterprise SSD performance test spec) implementation |
Self-contained Information Retention Format (SIRF)
| Project | Description |
| OpenSIRF | OpenSIRF is an open source implementation of the SIRF format available under the MIT License. |
Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S)
| Project | Description |
| libStorageMgmt | The libstoragemgmt-smis-plugin package contains plug-in for generic SMI-S array support. |
| OpenLMI | OpenLMI-Storage implements the Filesystem Profile. |
| sblim-cmpi-smis-hba | SBLIM CMPI HBA providers based on SMI-S standards |
| smis-fc-cinder-driver | EMC SMI-S FC Cinder Driver for Havana |
| smis-iscsi-cinder-driver | SMI-S iSCSI Cinder Driver for Havana |
| smis-providers | The smis-providers contains the CIM providers to instrument the Volumes & Snapshots on the Linux filesystem |
| storageim | StorageIM is a monitoring console for storage systems and networks designed around industry standards. StorageIM supports most storage arrays, switches, HBA's and storage libraries. |
| ZenPacks.community.SMISMon | This project is Zenoss extension (ZenPack) that makes it possible to model and monitor all SMI-S (Storage Management Initiative - Specification) compatible storage devices. It creates a /Devices/Storage/SMI-S Device Class for monitoring these storage devices |
eXtensible Access Method (XAM)
| Project | Description |
| xam-commons | An open source project of XAM compatible code |
| Xreplicator | This program replicates data storage systems of XAM (eXtensible Access Method) technology. |