Setup Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration Version 1.3 for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager Installation Guide
- Contents
- About Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration for Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager
- Components of DLCI for SCVMM
- Installing appliance
- Upgrading DLCI for SCVMM
- Uninstalling appliance
- Troubleshooting
- Account deletion in SCVMM
- Compatibility issue of appliance with ADK
- Connection lost between appliance and Integration Gateway
- DLCI for SCVMM admin portal not accessible
- Error accessing plugin after updating SCVMM R2
- Error accessing the appliance after changing network configuration
- Error in input during setup and configuration
- Error message while accessing admin portal through Mozilla Firefox browser
- Failure to connect to server
- SC2016 VMM console crash while importing DLCI for SCVMM console addin
- Failure to launch DLCI for SCVMM admin portal and DLCI for SCVMM console addin on Windows 2012 OS
- IP address not assigned to the appliance
- No required permission to access SCVMM
- SCVMM error 21119 while adding servers to active directory
- SCVMM registration failure
- Accessing support content from the Dell EMC support site
i. In DLCI Integration Gateway for SCVMM Installation, click Download Installer and save the installer to a
location.
6. Install the IG using the IG account.
a. Run the DLCI Integration Gateway for SCVMM installer.
b. In the DLCI Integration Gateway for SCVMM Welcome page, click Next.
c. In License Agreement, select I accept the terms in the license agreement, and then click Next.
d. In License: Open-Source Software, refer the open-source related information and click Next.
e. In Prerequisites Status, do the following and click Next.
● To view the latest prerequisites status, click Scan for Prerequisite and confirm the status.
● To install prerequisites, click Install Prerequisite.
The following prerequisites are automatically installed by the IG when you click Install Prerequisite:
○ HTTP Activation under Microsoft .NET 4.5
○ Windows Authentication in IIS under IIS 7.5
○ URL Authorization in IIS under IIS 7.5
○ IIS 6 Metabase compatibility under IIS 6 WMI compatibility, and IIS 6 Scripting Tools
○ Failover Clustering
f. In Integration Gateway Configuration, provide details of IG service account user and ensure the prerequisites for the
account are met.
Assign a port number for communication between appliance and IG. The default port number that is enabled is 8455.
However, you can configure a different port number based on the requirement.
To change the staging server location, click Select Share Folder and traverse to the new location and then click Next.
NOTE:
● Make sure the shared folder created has a minimum disk space of 10 GB.
● Execution policy for IG service user account is set to Unrestricted.
g. The default installation folder Integration Gateway for VMM is selected. To change location, click Change and
traverse to the new location. Once you complete the changes, click Next.
h. In Ready to Install the Program, click Next.
The following shared directories are created during installation of IG and make sure they are accessible using IG
credentials:
● DLCI Protection Vault
● DTK
● DOWNLOADS
● INVENTORY
● ISO
● LCDRIVER
● Log
● OMSA
● WIM
● UPDATE
i. Once the installation is complete, click Finish.
7. Check for the following after installing the IG:
a. Check for the connectivity between appliance, SCVMM and IG using host names:
● Log in to the appliance as a read-only user and from the appliance ping the IG server, and SCVMM server.
○ To log in to the appliance as a read-only user; enter user name as readonly and the appliance admin password.
● Log in to the IG server and ping the appliance and SCVMM server.
● Log in to the SCVMM server and ping the appliance and IG server.
If there is no response for the ping:
● Ensure that the firewall is not blocking the communication.
● Check the DNS server IP is configured in DNS configuration of the appliance
● Entry of the appliance is made in the DNS server.
b. Ensure the Internet Information Services (IIS) is running, and then launch the browser with the following URL to check if
the IIS site is reachable. https://<IG server>:IG port number(default 8455).
Installing appliance
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