Reference Guide

• 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.