Installing and uninstalling the smi-s provider, System requirements for smi-s provider – Dell PowerVault MD3260 User Manual
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Block services
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Disk drive lite
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Copy services
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Job control
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Extent composition
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Disk sparing
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Initiator port (SAS and SATA)
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Target port (SAS)
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iSCSI target port
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Access points
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Indications
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Masking and mapping
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Location
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Software inventory
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Software update
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Erasure
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Battery
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Storage asymmetry
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Message log
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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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