Jeff Goldner has posted an introduction to the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) for storage management that covers the following topics.  This post is available here:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2012/06/25/introduction-to-smi-s.aspx

And covers the following topics:

• Introduction to SMI-S
• Providers
• Classes
• Associations
• What Microsoft is doing with SMI-S
• What it means for hardware vendors
• Next up
• Additional References

Thanks,

Bruce