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MegaRAID Storage Manager Support on the VMWare ESXi Operating System
Management of VMware ESX 4.0 is possible only through a Common Information Model (CIM) provider. It is not possible to install anything on the VMware ESXi system, so management is performed through MSM that is installed on a remote machine (Linux/Windows).
VMware ESX 4.0 comes with the Small Footprint CIM Broker (CFCB) 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 lets you write and build instrumentation once and run it in different CIM environments (on one platform).
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