From the SNIA Web Site: SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) validates that a member company's products (software or hardware) conform to a particular version of the SMI-S specification for storage management. By the implementation of the SMI-S Conformance Testing Program (SMI-S CTP), SNIA can provide an impartial validation of a storage management software product, or affirm that an item of storage networking infrastructure conforms to a version of SMI-S.

SMI-S CTP began in March of 2004. The SMI-S CTP has released multiple versions of test suites to validate conformance of SMI-S enabled products since the program's beginning. The SMI-S CTP is an integral step towards bringing third party standards conformance to the marketplace. It consists of master test suites that are developed, owned, and operated by the SNIA. The SMI-S CTP has testing for storage device management software which conforms to the Storage Management Initiative Specification. This set of tests is known as the SMI-Provider test. The SMI-S CTP also provides testing for software which manages the overall storage environment using the Storage Management Initiative Specification. This sets of tests is known as the SMI-Client Test.