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Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade

Introduction

The Dell Management Plug-in is a virtual appliance, which is used to reduce tools and tasks associated

with management and deployment of Dell servers in your virtual environment. It reduces complexity by

natively integrating the key management capabilities into the vCenter console. It minimizes risk with

hardware alarms, streamlines firmware updates, and provides deep visibility into inventory, health,

and warranty details.

The Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter is designed to streamline the management processes

in your data center environment by letting you use VMware vCenter to manage your entire

infrastructure--both physical and virtual. From firmware updates to bare metal deployment, the Dell

Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter expands and enriches your data center management

experience with Dell PowerEdge servers.

This white paper provides step-by-step procedures for installing, purchasing, registering, licensing, and

upgrading the Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter.

Audience and scope

The scope of the document is to provide detailed procedures for installing, configuring, and managing

the Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter. This white paper is intended for sale engineers, field

application engineers, test engineers, architects, or IT administrators who are involved in the decision

making process for the planning, configuration, and operation of a dynamic datacenter. This document

is intended to assist solution architects in planning, designing, and deploying the Dell Management

Plug-in.

Prerequisites

Readers are expected to have working knowledge of networking, VMware vSphere, virtual networking

concept, Windows W2KR8, and the Linux environment. Requirements are VMware ESX/ESXi

4.1 or

later host installation and VMware vCenter

Installation

The installation is a simple two-step process of extracting the Dell Management Plug-in files from an

installation package and deploying the OVF.