White Papers

4 Standards-based storage management for Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
Executive summary
The growing scale of cloud- and web-based data center infrastructure is reshaping the requirements of IT
administrators world-wide. New approaches to systems management are needed to keep up with the growing
and changing market.
The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) Scalable Platforms Management Forum (SPMF) has
published Redfish, an open industry-standard specification and schema designed to meet the needs of IT
administrators for simple, modern, and secure management of scalable platform hardware. Dell EMC is a key
contributor to the Redfish standard, acting as co-chair of the SPMF, promoting the benefits of Redfish, and
working to deliver those benefits within Dell EMC industry-leading systems management solutions. Included
in the Redfish 2016 standards are standardized APIs for the inventory and configuration of storage devices.
This technical white paper provides an overview with scripting examples of the Redfish APIs for storage
management for the12th, 13th, and 14th generation of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, delivered by the
integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) RESTful API.
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