Administrator Guide

Steps
1 Start the Registry Editor application.
2 If the User Account Control dialog box appears, click Yes to continue. The Registry Editor window appears.
3 Disable CN verication for the storage provider certicate.
a In Registry Editor, navigate to the following folder:
Windows Server 2012: Select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE→ Software→ Microsoft→ Windows→ CurrentVersion→ Storage
Management
b If the DisableHttpsCommonNameCheck entry does not exist, select Edit→ New→ DWORD (32-bit) Value, and then type
DisableHttpsCommonNameCheck to create it.
c Double-click DisableHttpsCommonNameCheck.
d In the Value data box, type 1, then click OK.
4 If the server that hosts SCVMM is running Windows Server 2012, disable client certicate checking.
a In Registry Editor, select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE→ Software→ Microsoft → Windows→ CurrentVersion→ Storage
Management.
b Double-click EnableHTTPListenerClientCerticateCheck.
c In the Value data box, type 0, then click OK.
5 If the server that hosts SCVMM is running Windows Server 2012 with the January 2012 Microsoft Security Update KB2585542
installed, perform the following steps to modify the registry.
a In Registry Editor, select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE→ System→ CurrentControlSet→ Control→ SecurityProviders→
SCHANNEL.
b
If the SendExtraRecord entry does not exist, select Edit→ New→ DWORD (32-bit) Value, and then type SendExtraRecord
to create it.
c Double-click SendExtraRecord.
d In the Value data box, type 2, then click OK.
NOTE
: For more information, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2643584
6 Close Registry Editor.
Prepare the SCVMM 2012 Server for Indications
If you are using the Dell SMI-S Provider with SCVMM 2012 running on Windows Server 2012 or later, congure the SCVMM server to
accept SMI-S indications.
1 Make sure the Windows Standards-Based Storage Management feature is installed.
2 In Windows PowerShell, run the following command to open the required ports:
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="CIM-XML" dir=in protocol=TCP localport=5990
action=allow
3 In Windows PowerShell, run the following command to allow the Network Service to bind to the HTTPS port:
netsh http add urlacl url=https://*:5990/ user="NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE"
Use SCVMM to Discover the SMI-S Provider
The Add Storage Devices wizard allows you to add the SMI-S Provider.
About this task
Depending on the conguration of your Storage Center, it might take several minutes to discover the SMI-S provider.
Steps
1 Start the Microsoft SCVMM Administrator Console.
2 Open the Fabric workspace.
3 On the Home tab, click Add Resources, and then select Add Storage Devices.
The Add Storage Devices Wizard opens.
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