Installing Nytro MegaRAID Support Software : Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager : Installing and Configuring a CIM Provider

Installing and Configuring a CIM Provider

This section describes the installation and configuration of the LSI MegaRAID Common Information Model (CIM) provider. CIM provider offers common definitions of management information for networks, applications, and services, and lets you 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).