Dell PowerVault MD3600f, PowerVault MD3600i, PowerVault MD3620f, PowerVault MD3620i, SMI-S Provider Installation Manual
Dell PowerVault
Modular Disk Storage Arrays
SMI-S Provider
Installation Guide
Notes, Cautions, and Warnings
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Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Version Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Supported Profiles and Sub-Profiles
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2 Installing and Uninstalling the
SMI-S Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Installing SMI-S Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Windows-Based Operating Systems
Linux-Based Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . 10
Configuring CIM Server
Uninstalling SMI-S Provider. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Windows-Based Operating Systems
Linux-Based Operating Systems
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3 Managing the SMI-S Provider . . . . . . . . 15
Starting and Stopping the OpenPegasus CIM Server . . . 15
Adding or Removing a Storage Array From
the SMI-S Provider
Windows-Based Operating Systems
Linux-Based Operating Systems
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Contents 3
Changing the Debug Tracing Option. . . . . . . . . . . 16
4 Troubleshooting the SMI-S Provider . . . 17
4 Contents
1
Introduction
The Dell PowerVault Modular Disk (MD) storage arrays provide an industry
standard application programming interface (API) called the Storage
Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S). This interface enables third
party SMI-S client applications to manage MD storage arrays in a multi-vendor
storage area network (SAN) environment.
SMI-enabled management applications are known as CIM clients. To allow
clients to manage a storage device, an SMI-S Provider (also called SMI-S
Agent or CIM Agent) is required. SMI-S Providers can be implemented as:
• A proxy interface that translates the existing API of a device to an SMI-S
compliant interface. This implementation is the quickest path to SMI-S
compliance, but a proxy provider and a Common Information Model
Object Manager (CIMOM) must be installed on a server. A CIMOM is a
CIM/WBEM infrastructure that receives, validates, and authenticates
CIM requests from the client application. The CIMOM directs the
requests to the appropriate device provider.
• A native feature of the storage device API. This implementation is
sometimes referred to as an
Dell MD SMI-S Provider is implemented as a proxy interface. The Dell
SMI-S Provider, referred to as SMI-S Provider, runs on a server on the storage
network. OpenPegasus CIMOM is installed during the installation of this
SMI-S Provider.
The SMI-S Provider provides the SMI-S interface to the Dell PowerVault
Modular Disk storage array family. The provider uses the proxy CIM Agent
model and is supported on Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms only. For
more information about the platform versions, see the Support Matrix for the
MD storage arrays at support.dell.com/manuals.
embedded agent
.
Introduction 5
Version Information
Table 1-1 lists the version details of the components.
Table 1-1. Version Information
Component Version
SMI-S 1.4
SMI-S Provider 10.15
OpenPegasus CIMOM 2.9.1
Supported Profiles and Sub-Profiles
SMI-S Provider version 10.15 supports the following profiles and sub-profiles:
• Physical package
• Profile registration
• Device credentials
• Proxy server system management
• Multiple computer system
•Block services
•Disk drive lite
•Copy services
•Job control
• Extent composition
• Disk sparing
• Initiator port (SAS and SATA)
• Target port (SAS)
•iSCSI target port
•Access points
• Indications
• Masking and mapping
•Location
• Software inventory
• Software update
6 Introduction
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