Owner's Manual

Introduction 7
Introduction
This document is intended for system administrators who use the Dell™ MD
Storage Arrays Management Pack Suite Version 4.0 to manage and monitor
the Dell PowerVault™ MD3000, MD3000i, and PowerVault MD1000 storage
arrays that are daisy-chained to MD3000/MD3000i storage arrays.
NOTE: The Dell MD Storage Arrays Management Pack Suite is supported only on
Microsoft
®
Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 SP1/R2 and Systems
Center Essentials (SCE) 2007 SP1 versions.
With the integration of the Dell MD Storage Arrays Management Pack Suite
Version 4.0 with the SCOM and/or SCE environment, you can manage,
monitor, and ensure the availability of your Dell PowerVault MD storage
arrays.
CAUTION: The procedures in this document should be performed only by
personnel with knowledge and experience in using the Microsoft Windows
®
operating system and SCOM or SCE. Due to the possibility of data corruption
and/or data loss, it is recommended that only system administrators or IT
generalists use the procedures described in this document.
The readme file packaged with the management pack contains the latest
information about software and management station requirements, as well as
information about known issues. The readme file is posted to the Systems
Management documentation page on the Dell Support website at
support.dell.com/manuals. The readme files are also packaged in the self-
extracting executable Dell_MD_StorageArray_Management_Pack_Suite
v4.0_A00.exe file.
All references to SCOM in this guide are applicable to SCE as well, unless
otherwise explicit product and version information is mentioned.
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