Dell PowerVault MD3600f Installation Manual

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Introduction 51IntroductionThe Dell PowerVault Modular Disk (MD) storage arrays provide an industrystandard application programming interface (API) called the StorageManagement Initiative Specification (SMI-S). This interface enables thirdparty SMI-S client applications to manage MD storage arrays in a multi-vendorstorage area network (SAN) environment.SMI-enabled management applications are known as CIM clients. To allowclients to manage a storage device, an SMI-S Provider (also called SMI-SAgent 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-Scompliant interface. This implementation is the quickest path to SMI-Scompliance, but a proxy provider and a Common Information ModelObject Manager (CIMOM) must be installed on a server. A CIMOM is aCIM/WBEM infrastructure that receives, validates, and authenticatesCIM requests from the client application. The CIMOM directs therequests to the appropriate device provider.• A native feature of the storage device API. This implementation issometimes referred to as an embedded agent.Dell MD SMI-S Provider is implemented as a proxy interface. The DellSMI-S Provider, referred to as SMI-S Provider, runs on a server on the storagenetwork. OpenPegasus CIMOM is installed during the installation of thisSMI-S Provider.The SMI-S Provider provides the SMI-S interface to the Dell PowerVaultModular Disk storage array family. The provider uses the proxy CIM Agentmodel and is supported on Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms only. Formore information about the platform versions, see the Support Matrix for theMD storage arrays at support.dell.com/manuals.