Users Guide

Component Description
Manager/Microsoft Edition User’s Guide, or you can use the RSWCLI, described in Remote
Setup Command Line Utility.
HPC iSCSI Provider Allows the High Performance Computing (HPC) Service to provision volumes and deploy
compute nodes on Dell EqualLogic SANs. This service is available only on systems running
Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 or later. See www.microsoft.com/hpc for more information.
iSCSI Initiator Enables connections to iSCSI targets. Required by Remote Setup Wizard, ASM/ME, and the
VDS provider. For information about using the initiator, see Installation Considerations.
iSCSI Initiator properties tab Provides information about the status and history of the multipath connections supported by
the Multipath I/O DSM.
SMP Support
HIT/Microsoft includes a Storage Management Provider (SMP) for Windows Server 2012 and later operating systems. This framework is
preferred for enabling support for Windows-based storage management.
The SMP allows you to manage EqualLogic storage directly through native Windows storage interfaces such as storage PowerShell
cmdlets (Storage Module), the File Services UI in the Windows 2012 Server Manager console, or the standard Windows Management
Instrumentation API. The SMP infrastructure is native to Windows Server 2012 or later systems. The SMP is an optional component
installed in default configuration by the HIT/Microsoft installer. The provider is hosted by the SMP Host Service (EqlSMPHost).
SMP Configuration
SMP implementation requires PS Series group access to be configured. After installing, you must configure group access using the
PowerShell Tools (New-EqlGroupAccess cmdlet) or ASM.
See the Dell EqualLogic Auto-Snapshot Manager/Microsoft Edition User’s Guide for more information.
For a list of features not supported in the SMP, see the Host Integration Tools for Microsoft Release Notes.
SCVMM Support
HIT/Microsoft includes support for System Center Virtual Machine Management (SCVMM or VMM) interface 2012 SP1, 2012 R2 and
2016.
You must install the Host Integration Tools to enable support for SCVMM with storage. PS Series groups configured on the host are
available for managing storage within SCVMM. All the configured PS Series groups have one provider. SCVMM sees to the PS Series
groups as storage arrays (or storage devices), and to the pools within the PS Series groups as managed storage pools. In the
SCVMM GUI, you can create volumes (referred to as Logical Units in SCVMM).
SCVMM uses the SMP to communicate with the PS Series groups. The SMP allows you to manage Dell EqualLogic storage directly
through native Windows storage interfaces such as storage PowerShell cmdlets (Storage Module), the File Services UI in the Windows
Server 2012 or later Server Manager console, or the standard Windows Management Instrumentation API.
Configure SCVMM
1. Install the Host Integration Tools.
2. Open a PowerShell window and enter the following cmdlets, using the name and IP address of the PS Series group to which you want
to establish a connection. You must enter an administrator account name and password:
New-EqlGroupAccess
—GroupName name
—GroupWKAddress ip_address
—UserName Administrator
—Password “AcctPassword”
Connect-EqlGroup
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