Redfish (specification)

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]

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

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
• Apache CloudStack

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