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Installing and uninstalling the smi-s provider, System requirements for smi-s provider – Dell PowerVault MD3260 User Manual

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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

Erasure

Battery

Storage asymmetry

Message log

Block server performance

NOTE: Block server performance statistics are not available for controller firmware versions prior to 7.10.

Installing And Uninstalling The SMI-S Provider

System Requirements For SMI-S Provider

The following are the system requirements to install and run the SMI-S Provider.

System Component

Requirement

Memory

1 GB minimum (2 GB recommended).

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 for moderately to fully configured storage systems
per provider, or a total of around 5000 volumes. In large configurations, deploy additional
providers on different servers in your storage network to manage additional storage systems.

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