Redfish (specification)

Redfish

Abbreviation	Redfish
Status	Published
Year started	2014;11 years ago (2014)
Organization	Distributed Management Task Force
Related standards	Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware
Domain	Server management
Website	www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish

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]}

History

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.

Industry adoption

Redfish support on server

• Advantech SKY Server BMC ^[6]
• Dell iDRAC BMC with minimum iDRAC 7/8 FW 2.40.40.40, iDRAC9 FW 3.00.00.0
• Fujitsu iRMCS5 BMC ^[7]
• HPE iLO BMC with minimum iLO4 FW 2.30, iLO5 and more recent
• HPE Moonshot BMC with minimum FW 1.41
• Lenovo XClarity Controller (XCC) BMC with minimum XCC FW 1.00
• Supermicro X10 BMC with minimum FW 3.0 and X11 with minimum FW 1.0
• IBM Power Systems BMC with minimum OpenPOWER (OP) firmware level OP940 ^[8]
• IBM Power Systems Flexible Service Processor (FSP) with minimum firmware level FW860.20 ^[9]
• Cisco Integrated Management Controller with minimum IMC SW Version 3.0 ^[10]

Redfish support on BMC

• Insyde Software Supervyse ^[11] BMC
• OpenBMC a Linux Foundation collaborative open-source BMC firmware stack ^[12]
• American Megatrends MegaRAC Remote Management Firmware ^[13]
• Vertiv Avocent Core Insight Embedded Management Systems ^[14]

Software using Redfish APIs

• OpenStack Ironic bare metal deployment project has a Redfish driver.
• Ansible has multiple Redfish modules for Remote Management including redfish_info, redfish_config, and redfish_command
• ManageIQ

Redfish libraries and tools

• DMTF libraries and tools ^[15]
• GoLang gofish ^[16]
• Mojo::Redfish::Client ^[17]
• python-redfish ^[18]
• Sushy ^[19]

Redfish is used by both proprietary software (such as HPE OneView) as well as open source software (such as OpenBMC). ^{[20] [21]}

See also

• Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
• Create, read, update and delete (CRUD)
• JSON
• OData – Protocol for REST APIs

References

1. Sharwood, Simon (March 21, 2016). "Gang of five plans extensions to Redfish management spec". www.theregister.co.uk.
2. Miller, Michael J. (August 25, 2016). "Advances in USB, PCIe, InfiniBand and Redfish Point the Way Forward at IDF". PCMAG.
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13. "MegaRAC Remote Management Firmware" . Retrieved 26 February 2020.
14. "Avocent Core Insight Embedded Management Systems" . Retrieved 26 February 2020.
15. "DMTF Redfish libraries and tools". GitHub . Retrieved 6 May 2019.
16. "redfish package - github.com/stmcginnis/gofish/redfish - Go Packages". pkg.go.dev. Retrieved 2023-08-01.
17. "Mojo::Redfish::Client - A Redfish client with a Mojo flair" . Retrieved 28 Feb 2020.
18. "python-redfish Documentation" . Retrieved 6 May 2019.
19. "Sushy Documentation" . Retrieved 6 May 2019.
20. "Open Source Projects Using DMTF Technologies" . Retrieved 3 February 2019.
21. "openbmc/bmcweb". GitHub. Retrieved 2020-02-12.