CIM agent classes, methods, and SMI-S profiles supported

The CIM agent classes are the building blocks of the Common Information Model (CIM) agent and use functions such as storage configuration, Copy Services, and logical unit number (LUN) masking. The Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) is based on a number of existing technologies that include the CIM.

The CIM agent with Azure Site Recovery protects applications through replication coordination services and physical (or virtual) machine recovery. You can replicate data from your data center to a hosting service provider. (This way you do not have to build and manage a secondary location.) The CIM Agent and Azure Site Recovery uses replication features through SMI-S to use site protection and it starts SMI-S APIs within the service profile.

This integration provides: The CIM Agent and Azure Site Recovery can also replicate data to or from (or between) virtual machines. This replication ability includes replicating data from on-premises Hyper-V host servers that are located in a VMM cloud to a secondary VMM server in a remote data center.

To view the complete Managed Object Format (MOF) documentation of these classes and methods, select the documentation information from the following website:

https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/

This table identifies the SMI-S profiles that the CIM agent supports for the system.

Table 1. SMI-S profiles and subprofiles that are supported by CIM.

SMI-S profiles and subprofiles that are supported by CIM

Profiles Subprofiles

SNIA:Storage Virtualizer

Storage virtualizers act in a manner similar to RAID arrays but can use storage that is provided by systems that are external to the storage virtualizer and local disks. A storage virtualizer system combines both remote and local storage to create a seamless pool. The virtualization system allocates volumes from the pool for host systems to use.

The basic virtualizer system profile provides a read-only view of the system. The various subprofiles extend this description and also enable configuration.

SNIA:Storage Virtualizer:Access Points
SNIA:Storage Virtualizer:Block Server Performance
SNIA:Storage Virtualizer:Block Services
SNIA:Storage Virtualizer:Thin Provisioning
SNIA:Storage Virtualizer:Cascading
SNIA:Storage Virtualizer:Copy Services
SNIA:Storage Virtualizer:Replication Services
SNIA:Storage Virtualizer:Disk Drive Lite
SNIA:Storage Virtualizer:Disk Sparing
SNIA:Storage Virtualizer:Extent Composition
SNIA:Storage Virtualizer:FC Initiator Ports
SNIA:Storage Virtualizer:FC Target Ports
SNIA:Storage Virtualizer:Health
SNIA:Storage Virtualizer:iSCSI
SNIA:Storage Virtualizer:Location
SNIA:Storage Virtualizer:Masking and Mapping
SNIA:Storage Virtualizer:Multiple Computer System
SNIA:Storage Virtualizer:Physical Package
SNIA:Storage Virtualizer:RAID
SNIA:Storage Virtualizer:Software

SNIA:Server

The server profile is mandatory for all compliant SMI-S servers. The object manager part of the model defines the capabilities of a CIM object manager based on the communication mechanisms that it supports.

SNIA:Server:Profile Registration
SNIA:Server:Indication
SNIA:Server:Object Manager Adapter