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NetApp® SMI-S Provider 5.2.3
Installation and Configuration Guide
NetApp SMI-S Provider overview
New in this release
Uses of NetApp SMI-S Provider
NetApp SMI-S Provider sizing and performance
NetApp SMI-S Provider components
NetApp SMI-S Provider protocols
How NetApp SMI-S Provider interacts with a host
SMI-S profiles
Deployment workflow
Preparing for deployment
Supported operating system versions
Hardware requirements
Required licenses
Supported platforms
Downloading the NetApp SMI-S Provider software package
Installing NetApp SMI-S Provider
Installing NetApp SMI-S Provider on a Windows host
Installing NetApp SMI-S Provider on a Linux host
Uninstalling NetApp SMI-S Provider
Uninstalling NetApp SMI-S Provider from a Windows host
Uninstalling NetApp SMI-S Provider from a Linux host
Preconfiguration validation
Verifying the CIM server status
Adding a CIM server user
Verifying that the storage system is working correctly
Generating a self-signed certificate for the CIM server
Managing the CIM server
Managing storage systems
Managing CIM server users
Types of CIM users and associated operations
Managing CIMOM configuration settings
Managing logging and tracing
Configuring log settings
Logging levels
Managing tracing
Specifying trace settings
Trace setting values
Specifying trace file size
Specifying the number of trace files saved
Enabling or disabling audit logging for SMI-S commands
Managing SMI-S Provider advanced settings
Specifying the SMI-S Provider automatic cache refresh interval
Specifying the concrete job lifetime value
Specifying the ONTAPI timeout value
Specifying the maximum number of threads per message service queue
Enabling or disabling authentication for NetApp SMI-S Provider
Enabling indications in SMI-S Provider
SMI-S Provider configuration settings when using ServiceNow
Managing SLP
Specifying SLP configuration options
slp.conf file management
CIMOM commands
cimconfig
CIM user commands
cimuser
SMI-S Provider commands
smis add
smis addsecure
smis cimom
smis cimserver
smis class
smis config show
smis crp
smis crsp
smis delete
smis disks
smis exports
smis initiators
smis licensed
smis list
smis luns
smis namespaces
smis pools
smis refresh
smis slpd
smis version
smis volumes
SLP commands
slptool
slptool findattrs
slptool findsrvs
Using System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager
Remote replication overview
Remote replication requirements
Links to operations involved in configuring the SCVMM cloud fabric
Setting up cluster and SVM peering for disaster recovery
Troubleshooting SMI-S Provider
Possible errors while loading shared libraries
Access is denied error
Connection refused
Filer return: No ontap element in response
Clone/Snapshot operations are not allowed
ProviderLoadFailure
Warning 26130
SnapMirror broken, a failover happened
EntityRef: expecting ';' error
HostAgentAccessDenied (ID: 26263)
Cannot connect to localhost:5988
Cannot connect to localhost:5989
SMI-S Provider crashes in Linux
Multiprocess mode disabled in Linux
SMI-S Provider crashes in Windows
Issue entering passwords containing special characters
Manually enabling ALUA in 7-Mode environments
Cloning technology used in SMI-S Provider
Confirming visibility of important objects
Requirement for using fileshares on Windows
Nondefault firewalls must have ports manually added as exceptions
Cannot add a storage system using a nondefault HTTP or HTTPS port
No response from the server
Runtime library issues
NetApp SMI-S Provider takes a long time to start
Total managed space for a storage pool (volume) discrepancy
During 7-Mode aggregate creation, SMI-S Provider incorrectly reports initial aggregate size
Network path not found
Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service
SMB share size dropping to 0 in SCVMM
SCVMM rescan operation failed to locate or communicate with SMI-S Provider
Relationship with destination <volume> already exists
Copyright information
Trademark information
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