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
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
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
2
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:
1
Move the SMI-S Provider installation executable file on the server where
you want to install the SMI-S Provider.
2 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:
1
Move the SMI-S Provider RPM package file into the file system on the
server where you want to install SMI-S Provider.
2 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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