Deployment Guide

OpenManage Network Integration
OpenManage Network Integration (OMNI) is a component of SmartFabric Services that integrates with VMware vCenter for zero-touch
fabric automation of the physical network infrastructure corresponding to the virtual network operations within vCenter. OMNI also
serves as a front-end management application SmartFabric Service instances, enabling administrators to manage and operate one or more
network fabrics that are deployed with SmartFabric Services.
OMNI virtual appliance
The OMNI virtual appliance is delivered as a single OVA file that can be deployed as a stand-alone virtual machine or deployed as a plug-in
for VMware vCenter. The OMNI OVA file can be downloaded from the Dell Support portal at https://www.dell.com/support/
home/us/en/19/product-support/product/dell-openmanage-network/drivers.
For VxRail deployments and other environments with VMware vCenter, it is recommended to deploy OMNI as a plug-in to vCenter to
enable Zero-Touch automation of physical network fabric for corresponding virtual network configurations, provide greater visibility into
physical network connectivity for virtual network interfaces, and provide single pane of management of the network fabrics through
vCenter GUI.
OMNI virtual machine deployment is currently tested and supported only on the VMware ESXi hypervisor, even though it is expected that
the OVA could be deployed in other x86 hypervisors.
OMNI system requirements
VMware ESXi
Virtualization-ready x86 server
VMware ESXi 6.7 U1, U2 (recommended); ESXi 6.5, U1, U2, U3
VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus license
Virtual appliance (OVA)
2vCPU
16G memory
20G available disk space (higher disk sizes may be required depending on fabric size and data retention requirements)
More requirements
Web browser — Chrome (version 72.0.3626.121 and later) and Firefox (version 68.0 and later) recommended
vSphere web client 6.5 U1, U2, U3 — supported for Flash client; not supported for HTML5 client
vSphere web client 6.7 (all versions) — non supported for Flash client; supported for HTML5 client
OMNI networking requirements
A single OMNI appliance can manage one or more SmartFabric instances. It is required that OMNI has network connectivity to each of the
SmartFabric Instances. Each SmartFabric instance elects a single switch as a master node (SFS Master) and OMNI communicates with
the SFS Master node for all fabric operations.
SmartFabric Master out-of-band management network
For OMNI to discover and start managing a SmartFabric instance, OMNI requires connectivity with the SFS Master out-of-band IPv4
address. A network interface for the OMNI virtual machine must have IP reachability to the switch out-of-band management network.
SmartFabric Master in-band client control network
When OMNI is deployed on a VxRail node or a generic server that is directly connected to the SmartFabric instance that it is managing,
then OMNI can communicate with the SmartFabric Master using the client control network (3939). A network interface for the OMNI
virtual machine must have access to this client control network, and an IPv6 address must be assigned to establish IPv6 connectivity with
the SFS Master virtual IPv6 address.
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