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Dell EMC Technical White Paper
Contents
Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
1 Executive summary ...................................................................................................................................................... 5
2 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 6
3 Protocols supported by OpenManage Essentials ........................................................................................................ 7
4 Discover, inventory, and classify Dell EMC devices in OpenManage Essentials ........................................................ 8
4.1 View Dell EMC MX Chassis data in OpenManage Essentials ......................................................................... 12
4.2 View VxFlex-ready nodes in OpenManage Essentials .................................................................................... 13
4.3 View VxRail appliances in OpenManage Essentials ........................................................................................ 13
VxRail appliance with the Application Management URL ................................................................................ 13
VxRail appliance without the Application Management URL ........................................................................... 15
VxRail appliance models supported by OpenManage Essentials .................................................................... 15
4.4 View XC Series appliances in OpenManage Essentials .................................................................................. 16
XC Series appliance with the Application Management URL .......................................................................... 16
XC Series Appliance without the Application Management URL ..................................................................... 17
XC Series models supported by OpenManage Essentials .............................................................................. 17
4.5 View Disk Backup appliances in OpenManage Essentials .............................................................................. 18
Disc Backup appliance supported by OpenManage Essentials ....................................................................... 18
4.6 Dell EMC Networking X-Series Smart Managed Switches .............................................................................. 19
Networking X-Series Smart Managed switch models supported by OpenManage Essentials ........................ 19
4.7 View Dell EMC EqualLogic groups in OpenManage Essentials ...................................................................... 20
Group device tables in OpenManage Essentials .............................................................................................. 20
Member device tables in OpenManage Essentials .......................................................................................... 21
Supported actions for Dell EqualLogic group in OpenManage Essentials ....................................................... 23
Event association for Dell EMC EqualLogic Group .......................................................................................... 24
Recommendations for Dell EMC EqualLogic group discovery ......................................................................... 25
Dell EMC EqualLogic supported models in OpenManage Essentials .............................................................. 25
4.8 Dell EMC NAS appliances ................................................................................................................................ 25
View NAS Appliances with FluidFS v1.0 in OpenManage Essentials .............................................................. 25
View NAS Appliances with FluidFS v3.0 in OpenManage Essentials .............................................................. 26
NAS appliances supported by OpenManage Essentials .................................................................................. 27
4.9 SonicWALL Firewall ......................................................................................................................................... 28
4.10 View PowerConnect W-Series devices in OpenManage Essentials ................................................................ 29
PowerConnect W-Series models supported in OpenManage Essentials .................................................... 29
4.11 View Brocade Fibre Channel devices in OpenManage Essentials .................................................................. 30