Composability Fabric Manager Software
Composability Fabric Manager (CFM) Software is a team within the Composable Memory System (CMS) Sub-Project of the OCP Server Project. It explores standards-based expansion of features for future Composable Memory Appliance (CMA) architectures. The initial CMA/CFM contribution included the basic provisioning and composition components of the CFM, including Redfish composition services, the Redfish API, and a CLI and GUI. The team’s charter is to optimize these components and APIs through the open-source community while adding container memory provisioning, dynamic capacity controls, and performance and quality-of-service management. Code is published on GitHub.
About This Workstream
Sub-Project Lead: Mohamad El-Batal
Composability Fabric Manager (CFM) Software is a sub-project within the Composable Memory System (CMS) Sub-Project of the OCP Server Project.
The Composable Memory System (CMS) Sub-Project sits under the OCP Server Project. It was created when the OCP Future Technologies Initiative’s Software Defined Memory workstream transitioned into a new OCP Sub-Project, now called Composable Memory Systems.
The team explores improvements and standards-based expansion of the features related to future Composable Memory Appliance (CMA) architecture and solutions, to keep up with future customer needs. The initial CMA/CFM contribution included the basic provisioning and composition components of the CFM; the goal of the CFM team is to optimize these provisioning and composition components and APIs through the open-source community.
The CFM architecture comprises multiple components:
- The CFM software setup
- Composition Redfish service and client
- The CMA BMC Redfish composition service and client (not contributed)
- The client host Redfish service
- The Redfish API
- The software CLI and GUI
Scope
The CFM team’s charter adds innovation in these areas:
Provisioning and composition — optimizing the contributed provisioning and composition components and APIs through the open-source community
Container memory provisioning — additional container memory provisioning and composition service and API
Dynamic capacity controls — dynamic capacity control for composed memory
Performance and QoS — performance and quality-of-service management