Dell PowerVault MD3600f Series User manual

Dell PowerVault

Modular Disk Storage Arrays

SMI-S Provider

Installation Guide

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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Installing SMI-S Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Windows-Based Operating Systems . . . . . . . . 10

Linux-Based Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . 10

Configuring CIM Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

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

Windows-Based Operating Systems . . . . . . . . 13

Linux-Based Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . 13

3 Managing the SMI-S Provider . . . . . . . . 15

Starting and Stopping the OpenPegasus CIM Server . . . 15

Windows-Based Operating Systems . . . . . . . . 15

Linux-Based Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . 15

Adding or Removing a Storage Array From

the SMI-S Provider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

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4Contents

Changing the Debug Tracing Option. . . . . . . . . . . 16

4 Troubleshooting the SMI-S Provider . . . 17

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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 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

embedded agent

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.

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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 10.15 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

Table 1-1. Version Information

Component Version

SMI-S 1.4

SMI-S Provider 10.15

OpenPegasus CIMOM 2.9.1

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Introduction 7

• Block server performance

NOTE: Block server performance statistics are not available for controller

firmware versions prior to 7.10.

•Erasure

• Battery

• Storage asymmetry

•Messagelog

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8Introduction

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Installing and Uninstalling the SMI-S Provider 9

Installing and Uninstalling the SMI-S

Provider

System Requirements

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

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

• Connectivity—Ethernet with 100BASE-T minimum (Gigabit Ethernet

preferred) and TCP/IP.

• Port—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.

• Scalability—There is no limit on the number of storage systems that can

be supported by a single provider instance. The recommended maximum

is 10 moderately to fully configured storage systems per provider, or around

5000 volumes total. In large configurations, deploy additional providers on

different servers in your storage network to manage additional storage

systems.

Installing SMI-S Provider

The SMI-S Provider is packaged as an archive file for UNIX-based operating

system servers and as an executable installation file for Microsoft Windows-

based operating system servers.

To install the provider standalone binary, follow the instructions below

depending on the operating system where the provider needs to be installed.

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10 Installing and Uninstalling the SMI-S Provider

Windows-Based Operating Systems

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.

Double-click the installation executable icon and follow the instructions

on the screen.

NOTE: The installation prompts you to enter an IP address for the storage array

that you want to use. The installation opens a text file in Notepad. Follow the

instructions in the text file. After you have added the storage array and closed

Notepad, the installation program continues normally.

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

delete the installation executable file.

Linux-Based Operating Systems

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

To change the OpenPegasus CIMOM configuration, see "Configuring CIM

Server" on page 11.

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