Dell PowerVault MD3260 Dell PowerVault MD Series Storage Arrays SMI-S Provide - Page 6

• 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 Memory Connectivity Port Storage array password Scalability Requirement 1 GB minimum (2 GB recommended). Ethernet with 100BASE-T minimum (Gigabit Ethernet preferred) and TCP/IP. TCP port 5988 or TCP port 5989, or any other available port if these ports are not available. 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. 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. 6