About storage management and WMI classes

This section describes the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) requirements and the system-supplied Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) classes used in the Windows storage architecture. For a discussion of how storage miniport drivers handle WMI classes, see Handling WMI SRBs in Storage Miniport Drivers.

Storage Management Providers, SMI-S requirements, and system-supplied WMI classes are in the following categories:

Storage driver design guide