Owner's Manual

5
Introduction
This guide describes how to install Dell MD Storage Arrays Management
Pack Suite version 4.1 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
(SCOM) 2007 SP1/R2, System Center Essentials (SCE) 2007 SP1/2010.
NOTE: All references to SCOM in this guide are applicable to SCE as well, unless
otherwise explicit product and version information is mentioned.
Pre-requisites
The following table lists the management station requirements to install the
Dell MD Storage Arrays Management Pack Suite version 4.1.
Table 1-1. Requirements for Management Station
Requirements Purpose
Microsoft System Center
Operations Manager (SCOM)
2007 SP1/R2 or Microsoft
System Center Essentials
(SCE) 2007 SP1/2010
To support the Dell
MD Storage Arrays
Management Pack
.
Administrator access on the
system
To run the Dell Discovery utility.
To read and modify the IP configuration
file.
For more information on the Dell Discovery
utility, see the online help provided with the
utility.
Minimum disk space of 5 GB For SCOM to run the Dell Array Bridge Broker.exe
file.
(
Optional
)Modular Disk
Storage Manager (MDSM)
To diagnose and resolve recovery failure alerts.
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