Owner's Manual

160 Virtualization
Classic ESX
Dell Management Console discovers the host device by using the
VMware
®
SNMP agent.
The prerequisites to discover the host are:
• Enabling SNMP service on the server
• Enabling SNMP in the connection profile that is used in the Discovery task.
HyperV
Dell Management Console discovers the host device by using
aWMIprovider.
The prerequisites to discover the host are:
• Enabling WMI service on the server
• Enabling WMI in the connection profile that is used in the Discovery task.
Embedded ESX
Dell Management Console discovers the host device by using the CIM
providers provided by VMware.
The prerequisites to discover the host are:
• Enabling WSMAN service on the server.
• Enabling WSMAN in the connection profile that is used in the Discovery
task.
Host-Virtual Machine Association
• Virtual host server is identified based on the hypervisor operating system
running on these host servers.
• Virtual host servers are shown in the
All Devices tree under the Virtual
Host
node.
• Virtual machines running on the server are discovered independently over
the network.
• The association between the host and virtual machines running on the
host are created post discovery using the MAC address, IP address, and
UUID of the virtual machines.
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