The Redfish standard is a suite of specifications that deliver an industry standard protocol providing a RESTful interface for the management of servers, storage, networking, and converged infrastructure.[1][2]
Abbreviation | Redfish |
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Status | Published |
Year started | 2014 |
Organization | Distributed Management Task Force |
Related standards | Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware |
Domain | Server management |
Website | www |
The Redfish standard has been elaborated under the SPMF umbrella at the DMTF in 2014. The first specification with base models (1.0) was published in August 2015.[3] In 2016, Models for BIOS, disk drives, memory, storage, volume, endpoint, fabric, switch, PCIe device, zone, software/firmware inventory & update, multi-function NICs), host interface (KCS replacement) and privilege mapping were added. In 2017, Models for Composability, Location and errata were added.[4] There is work in progress for Ethernet Switching, DCIM, and OCP.
In August 2016, SNIA released a first model for network storage services (Swordfish[5]), an extension of the Redfish specification.
Redfish is used by both proprietary software (such as HPE OneView) as well as FLOSS ones (such as OpenBMC).[20][21]