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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:

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A proxy interface that translates the existing API of a device to an SMI-S

compliant interface.

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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.

Introduction