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.

History

The Redfish standard has been elaborated under the SPMF umbrella at the

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in 2014. The first specification with base models (1.0) was published in August 2015. 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. There is work in progress for Ethernet Switching, DCIM, and OCP. In August 2016, SNIA released a first model for network storage services (Swordfish), an extension of the Redfish specification.

Industry adoption

Redfish support on server

* Advantech SKY Server BMC *

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iDRAC The Dell Remote Access Controller, or DRAC, is an out-of-band management platform on certain Dell servers. The platform may be provided on a separate expansion card, or integrated into the main board; when integrated, the platform is referred to a ...

BMC with minimum iDRAC 7/8 FW 2.40.40.40, iDRAC9 FW 3.00.00.0 *

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iRMCS5 BMC * HPE

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BMC with minimum iLO4 FW 2.30, iLO5 * HPE Moonshot BMC with minimum FW 1.41 *

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XClarity Controller (XCC) BMC with minimum XCC FW 1.00 *

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X10 BMC with minimum FW 3.0 and X11 with minimum FW 1.0 *

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BMC with minimum

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(OP) firmware level OP940 *IBM Power Systems Flexible Service Processor (FSP) with minimum firmware level FW860.20 *Cisco Integrated Management Controller with minimum IMC SW Version 3.0

Redfish support on BMC

* Insyde Software Supervyse BMC *

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collaborative

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BMC firmware stack *

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MegaRAC Remote Management Firmware * Vertiv Avocent Core Insight Embedded Management Systems

Software using Redfish APIs

OpenStack OpenStack is a free, open standard cloud computing platform. It is mostly deployed as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in both public and private clouds where virtual servers and other resources are made available to users. The software platfo ...

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bare metal deployment project has a Redfish driver. *

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has multiple Redfish modules for Remote Management including redfish_info, redfish_config, and redfish_command * ManageIQ

Redfish libraries and tools

* DMTF libraries and tools * Mojo::Redfish::Client * python-redfish * Sushy Redfish is used by both proprietary software (such as HPE OneView) as well as FLOSS ones (such as OpenBMC).

Benefits of Redfish

Redfish offers several benefits for admins, such as: * Easy integration with commonly used technology such as REST or JSON * Better performance and security than other platform management solutions * Possibility to manage data center components from remote

References

External links

DMTF Redfish initiative

Redfish Developer Hub

DELL Redfish ecosystem

SuperMicro Redfish ecosystem

DMTF Redfish scripting for Gigabyte systems
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