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12Gb/s MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide
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March 2014
Chapter 7: MegaRAID Storage Manager Overview and Installation
Installing and Configuring a CIM Provider
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Event logging:
Event logging support is available for the VMware ESXi operating system, but it works differently than the normal
MegaRAID Storage Manager framework mode. The event logging feature for the MegaRAID Storage Manager
Client connected to a VMware ESXi system behaves as follows:
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The System logs are logged in the remote server instead of logging in the ESXi server. For differentiating
between the events received from the remote server and the ESXi server, the MegaRAID Storage Manager
software appends the ESxi server’s IP address on the events received from the ESxi server.
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The “View Log” option allows you to view the logs saved in a text file on the Event Logger dialog.
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Refreshing of the MegaRAID Storage Manager GUI after any updates on the firmware is slower for a client
connected to VMware ESXi hosts, compared to one that is connected to a Windows/Linux/Solaris host.
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VMware ESXi is supported only on a full installation of the MegaRAID Storage Manager software; standalone,
client-only, server-only, and local modes do not support VMware ESXi management.
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VMware ESXi is supported on following operating systems:
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Microsoft Windows Server
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RHEL
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SUSE Linux
7.5 Installing and Configuring a CIM Provider
This section describes the installation and configuration of the LSI MegaRAID Common Information Model (CIM)
provider. The Common Information Model offers common definitions of management information for networks,
applications, and services, and allows you to exchange management information across systems throughout a
network.
On a VMware ESXi system, management is possible only through a CIM provider, and it is performed through the
MegaRAID Storage Manager software installed on a remote machine running a Linux or Windows operating system.
The VMware ESXi system comes with the Small Footprint CIM Broker (SFCB) CIM Object Manager (or CIMOM). A
CIMOM manages communication between providers, which interact with the hardware, and a CIM client, where the
administrator manages the system.
SFCB supports Common Manageability Programming Interface (CMPI)-style providers. CMPI defines a common
standard used to interface manageability instrumentation (providers, instrumentation) to management brokers (CIM
Object Manager). CMPI standardizes manageability instrumentation, which allows you to write and build
instrumentation once and run it in different CIM environments (on one platform).
7.5.1 Installing a CIM SAS Storage Provider on the Linux Operating System
The following procedure documents how to install and uninstall the LSI CIM SAS Storage Provider on a system
running on the Linux operating system.
NOTE Uninstall all the previous versions of LSISASProvider before you install
this version. You can check all of the installed versions of
LSISASProvider by running the
rpm -qa | grep
LsiSASProvider
command.
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To install a CIM SAS Storage Provider on a Linux system, install the SAS Provider using the Red Hat Package
Manager (RPM) by entering the following command:
rpm -ivh
The RPM installs all of the necessary files and the Managed Object Format (MOF), and it registers the libraries. The
SAS Provider is now ready to use.