Dell PowerVault MD3200 Series User manual

Dell PowerVault

Modular Disk Storage Arrays

SMI-S Provider

Installation Guide

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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of

your computer.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss of data if

instructions are not followed.

WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal

injury, or death.

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July 2010 Rev. A00

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Contents 3

Contents

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Version Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Supported Profiles and Sub-Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2 Installing and Uninstalling the

SMI-S Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Installing SMI-S Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

For Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

For Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Configuring CIM Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Uninstalling SMI-S Provider. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

For Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

For Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

3 Managing SMI-S Provider. . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Starting and Stopping the OpenPegasus

CIM Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

For Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

For Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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4Contents

Adding or Removing a Storage Array From

SMI-S Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Changing the Debug Tracing Option. . . . . . . . . . . 14

4 Troubleshooting the SMI-S Provider . . . 15

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Introduction 5

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 referred as 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.

• A native feature of the storage device API. This implementation is

sometimes referred to as an

embedded agent

Dell MD SMI-S Provider is implemented as a proxy interface.

This

implementation is the quickest path to SMI-S compliance, but it requires that

the proxy provider and a Common Information Model Object Manager

(CIMOM) are 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.

The Dell SMI-S Provider, referred to as SMI-S Provider, must run 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 Windows and Linux platforms only. For the actual

versions of the platforms, see the support matrix for the MD storage arrays at

support.dell.com/manuals.

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6Introduction

Version Information

Table 1-1 lists the version details of the components.

Supported Profiles and Sub-Profiles

SMI-S Provider version 10.10 supports the following profiles and sub-profiles:

• Physical package

• Profile registration

• Device credentials

• Proxy server system management

• Multiple computer system

•Blockservices

•Diskdrivelite

•Copyservices

•Jobcontrol

• Extent composition

• Disk sparing

• Initiator port (SAS and SATA)

• Target port (SAS)

•iSCSItargetport

•Accesspoints

• Indications

• Masking and mapping

•Location

• Software inventory

• Software update

• Block server performance

Table 1-1. Version Information

Component Version

SMI-S 1.4

SMI-S Provider 10.10

OpenPegasus CIMOM 2.9.1

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Installing and Uninstalling the SMI-S Provider 7

Installing and Uninstalling the SMI-S

Provider

System Requirements

The system requirements to install and run the SMI-S Provider include:

• Memory requirements—1 GB minimum (2 GB preferred).

• Connectivity requirements—Ethernet with 100BASE-T minimum

(Gigabit Ethernet preferred), TCP/IP.

• Port requirements—TCP port 5988 or TCP port 5989, or any other

available port if these ports are not available.

• Storage array password—The device credentials profile requires the storage

array password (SharedSecret) to modify operations. The SMI-S Provider

persistently tracks an instance of the SharedSecret per storage array.

Installing SMI-S Provider

For Windows

The SMI-S Provider is packaged as an installation executable file. To install

the SMI-S Provider:

Move the SMI-S Provider installation executable file on the server where

you want to install the SMI-S Provider and double-click the installation

executable icon and follow the instructions on the screen.

During installation,

ArrayHosts.txt

file opens.

Enter the

HostName

(s)

IP Address

(s)

of the MD storage array(s) to be

managed by the host in ArrayHosts.txt, save and close the file.

CAUTION: Enter only one of the two management ports' IP addresses of each

array in this file. Do not enter the IP addresses of both management ports.

Click

Finish

The SMI-S Provider is installed on your system. After installation, you can

delete the installation executable file.

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8Installing and Uninstalling the SMI-S Provider

For Linux

The SMI-S Provider is packaged as an archive file.

To install the SMI-S Provider:

Move the SMI-S Provider RPM package file into the file system on the

server where you want to install SMI-S Provider.

Run the following command:

rpm -ivh <rpm package name>.rpm

NOTE: On SUSE Linux Enterprise Server platform, ensure that you set the

environment variables PEGASUS_HOME and LD_LIBRARY_PATH before

running any CLI from pegasus/bin directory (like cimcli or cimserver). Set the

environment variables to the following (assuming the /opt/dell as the default

install path)

export PEGASUS_HOME /opt/dell/pegasus

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH /opt/dell/pegasus/lib

To change the OpenPegasus CIMOM configuration, see "Configuring CIM

Server" on page 8.

Configuring CIM Server

Use the following commands to perform basic CIM server configuration

operations.

NOTE: You must restart the OpenPegasus server after executing any of the

following commands.

• To set an http port:

# cimconfig -s httpPort=<port> -p

• To set an https port:

# cimconfig -s httpsPort=<port> -p

• To enable or disable the http connection:

# cimconfig -s enableHttpConnection={true | false}

-p

• To enable or disable the https connection:

# cimconfig -s enableHttpsConnection={true |

false} -p

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• To enable or disable authentication:

# cimconfig -s enableAuthentication={false | true}

–p

• To add a user for defining the credentials for CIM client to authenticate

with the CIM server:

# cimuser -a -u username -w password

• To remove a user:

# cimuser -r -u username -w password

• To enable or disable service location protocol (SLP):

# cimconfig -s slp={true | false} -p

If SLP is enabled, see Table 2-1 for additional settings information.

Commands are of the format

cimconfig -s <propertyName>={true|false} -p

where <propertyName> is a column heading in Table 2-1.

Table 2-1. Additional Setting Information if SLP is Enabled

propertyName Behavior

runinternal

PegasusSLP

registerExternal

PegasusSLP

registerExternal

OpenSLP

Multiple

SLP

true false false false Internal Pegasus SLP is

started when CIM server

starts.

false true false false External Pegasus SLP

registration is run in

cimserver with a default

registration timeout set to

3 hours (same as the SLP

default timeout).

false false true false External OpenSLP

registration is run in CIM

server.

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10 Installing and Uninstalling the SMI-S Provider

NOTE: All other combinations of the SLP property values have undefined behavior.

For more information, see the documentation available in the source release

archive at openpegasus.org.

Uninstalling SMI-S Provider

For Windows

Select

Add or Remove Programs

(or

Programs and Features

for Microsoft

Windows Server 2008) in the

Control Panel

Double-click

Dell SMI-S Provider

to uninstall it.

The un-installation procedure may leave files (such as trace files, repository

files, and other administrative files) that were created by SMI-S Provider after

the installation was complete. Manually delete these files to completely

remove SMI-S Provider.

NOTE: The default install directory for SMI-S Provider is <%Program

Files%>/Dell/pegasus/provider/array

false false true true External OpenSLP

registration is attempted

and falls back to external

Pegasus SLP registration if

it fails (default setting).

false true false true External Pegasus SLP

registration is attempted

and falls back to external

OpenSLP registration if it

fails.

Table 2-1. Additional Setting Information if SLP is Enabled

(continued)

propertyName Behavior

runinternal

PegasusSLP

registerExternal

PegasusSLP

registerExternal

OpenSLP

Multiple

SLP

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