The EMC SMI-S iSCSI driver, which is based on the iSCSI driver, can create, delete, attach, and detach volumes, create and delete snapshots, and so on.
The EMC SMI-S iSCSI driver runs volume operations by communicating with the back-end EMC storage. It uses a CIM client in Python called PyWBEM to perform CIM operations over HTTP.
The EMC CIM Object Manager (ECOM) is packaged with the EMC SMI-S provider. It is a CIM server that enables CIM clients to perform CIM operations over HTTP by using SMI-S in the back-end for EMC storage operations.
The EMC SMI-S Provider supports the SNIA Storage Management Initiative (SMI), an ANSI standard for storage management. It supports VMAX and VNX storage systems.
