"The host-base storage portion of the Storage Management Technical Specification defines management profiles for autonomous@ component and abstract profiles for management of host-based storage devices. The autonomous profiles describe the management of a stand-alone host-based storage entity. The component profiles (or subprofiles) describe management of aspects of host-based storage entities that may be used by other autonomous profiles. Finally@ this section describes abstract profiles that may be used as a basis for creating additional Host-based autonomous profiles. This version of the Host-based Storage portion of the Storage Management Technical Specification includes autonomous profiles: ? ""The Host Discovered Resources Profile This profile defines the model for the storage devices presented to an operating system running on a host computer system. In addition@ this profile describes the map of storage associated to a host-computer system that a client application can discover. ? ""The Fibre Channel HBA Profile This profile defines the model and functions of a Fibre Channel HBA that exports block storage to a host computer system from a SAN device (Fibre Channel switch@ array@ tape library@ etc.). ? ""The Host Hardware RAID Profile This profile defines the model and functions of a host where a RAID Controller resides. This is a ""shim"" profile used in the absence of Base Server Profile@ to instantiate an instance of ComputerSystem that represents the host computer. This profile is required to add compatibility with the Fibre Channel HBA profile. ? ""The Host Hardware RAID Controller Profile This profile defines the model and functions of a host-based RAID controller that exports block storage to a host computer system from locally attached storage devices (internal hard drives@ JBODs@ etc.) ? ""The Storage Device Enclosure Profile This profile defines the modeling of instances@ properties and functions for the management of a storage device enclosure. This part of the specification defines component profiles used by the other autonomous profiles to describe aspects of host-based storage elements and services. The component profiles (subprofiles) defined in this version of the specification include: ? ""The iSCSI Initiator Subprofile This profile defines the model and functions necessary to manage an iSCSI initiator. ? ""The Disk Partition Subprofile The Disk Partition profile models partition (or slice) configuration services provided by operating systems on some platforms. ? ""The SB Multipath Management Subprofile The SB Multipath Management Subprofile models paths (connections between host controllers and device ports) for environments supporting the SB (Single Byte) command protocol. ? ""The SCSI Multipath Management Subprofile The SCSI Multipath Management profile models paths (connections between host controllers@ device ports@ and logical units) for environments supporting the SCSI command protocol. This part of the specification defines abstract profile(s) used as a model to create other specialized host-based storage autonomous profiles. The abstract profiles (subprofiles) defined in this version of the specification include: ? ""The Generic FC Controller Profile This profile abstractly defines the model and function necessary to manage a Fibre Channel HBA. This profile is used as the basis for the autonomous Fibre Channel HBA profile and the future virtualization profiles."