Page 2 - Intel® SCS with SSD Pro Series Plug-in Deployment Guide; Table of Contents
Intel® SCS with SSD Pro Series Plug-in Deployment Guide 2 Table of Contents Intel® SCS Overview ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................
Page 3 - Intel® SCS Overview
Intel® SCS with SSD Pro Series Plug-in Deployment Guide 3 Intel® SCS Overview Intel® Setup and Configuration Software (Intel® SCS) allows you to discover the Intel based platforms in your enterprise environment, configure the Intel capabilities on those platforms, and manage IT policies for them. In...
Page 4 - Client and Console Setup; Download and install Intel SCS 9 on a management console system.; Download and Install Intel SCS 9 or Later; You MUST set up the Remote Configuration Service; Figure 1: Download Intel® SCS 9.x or later
Intel® SCS with SSD Pro Series Plug-in Deployment Guide 4 Client and Console Setup Each remotely managed client system must be configured to provide access to the data generated by the Intel SSD Pro 1500 Series drives. This configuration process consists of following major steps: 1. Download and ins...
Page 5 - Install Console-Side Profile Editor Plug-in; Login to the computer running the Intel SCS Console.; Figure 2: The Console Plugins Folder; Installx86.reg is for 32 bit clients and Installx64.reg is; Figure 3: Copy Required Files to a Temp Folder
Intel® SCS with SSD Pro Series Plug-in Deployment Guide 5 Install Console-Side Profile Editor Plug-in Once you have installed Intel SCS on your management console system, you need to install the Profile Editor plug-in. The Profile Editor plug-in (which is used to create an Intel SCS Profile for tuni...
Page 6 - Figure 4: Edit the Appropriate Registry File; each; Figure 5: Copy Required Files to Each Client
Intel® SCS with SSD Pro Series Plug-in Deployment Guide 6 Edit the Registry Key File(s) The Intel SCS 9 client framework uses WMI to interact with framework-compatible components like the ssdpro.dll library. In order for the framework’s WMI query to find ssdpro.dll, the client needs a registry key p...
Page 7 - Intel SCS Solution Discovery; The command line example above assumes the account running
Intel® SCS with SSD Pro Series Plug-in Deployment Guide 7 Using the Intel® SCS with SSD Pro Series Plug-in to Manage Your Drives This section describes how to use the Intel SCS with SSD Pro Series Plug-in to discover the Intel SSD Pro 1500 Series drives in your enterprise environment, configure them...
Page 8 - Tuning Your OS for Intel SSD Pro Series 1500 Drives; Click the green “+”to create a new profile (; Figure 6: Click Green “+” to Create New Profile
Intel® SCS with SSD Pro Series Plug-in Deployment Guide 8 Tuning Your OS for Intel SSD Pro Series 1500 Drives This section describes how to use Windows PowerShell scripts included with Intel SCS to tune the OS to work well with SSDs. Specifically, you can use this process to adjust the prefetch logi...
Page 9 - Key Performance Indicators
Intel® SCS with SSD Pro Series Plug-in Deployment Guide 9 Key Performance Indicators Intel SCS 9 uses WMI to extract key performance indicators such as Media Wearout Indicator (a numeric value set at 100 for new drives which steadily decreases over time) from the SMART performance data available on ...