Release Notes

Installation prerequisites and minimum requirements

For a list of supported platforms, operating systems, and browsers, see the Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Version 3.4 Support Matrix

on the support site and Dell TechCenter.

To install OpenManage Enterprise, you must have the local system administrator rights and the system you are using must meet the

criteria. See the Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise User's Guide on the support site and Dell TechCenter.

Recommended minimum hardware configuration for OpenManage Enterprise version 3.4:

Table 1. Minimum recommended hardware

Minimum recommended hardware Large deployments Small deployments

Number of devices that can be

managed by the appliance

Up to 8000 1000

RAM 32 GB 16 GB

Processors 8 cores total 4 cores total

Hard drive 250 GB 50 GB

Minimum system requirements for deploying OpenManage Enterprise

version 3.4

Table 2. Minimum system requirements

Particulars Minimum requirements

Supported hypervisors • VMware vSphere versions:

○ vSphere ESXi 5.5 Onwards

• Microsoft Hyper-V supported on:

○ Windows Server 2012 R2 Onwards

• KVM supported on:

○ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Onwards

Network Available virtual NIC which has access to the management

networks of all the devices which is managed from OpenManage

Enterprise.

Supported browsers • Internet Explorer (64-bit) 11 and later

• Mozilla Firefox 52 and later

• Google Chrome 58 and later

• Microsoft Edge version 41.16299 and later

User interface HTML 5, JS based

NOTE: For the latest update about the minimum system requirements for OpenManage Enterprise, see the

Dell EMC

OpenManage Enterprise Support Matrix

on the support site.

Generic naming convention for Dell EMC PowerEdge servers

To cover a range of server models, the PowerEdge servers are now being referred to using the generic naming convention and not their

generation.

This topic explains how to identify the generation of a PowerEdge server that are referred to using the generic naming convention.

Example:

The R740 server model is a rack, two processor system from the 14th generation of servers with Intel processors. In the documentation,

to refer to R740, generic naming convention YX4X server is used, where:

• The letter Y (alphabet) is used to denote the following server form factors: