Release Notes

Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.6 Release Notes
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Hardware and software requirements
The following support matrix tables detail the VMware version and Management Plug-in functional support for
Dell PowerEdge 9th, 10th, 11
th
, and 12
th
generation Dell servers.
 OpenManage 6.4 agent or greater - SNMP alerts, Hardware Inventory, Blink Server LED,
View/Clear SEL logs
 Lifecycle Controller 1.5.2 or later - BIOS/Firmware Updates, Bare metal Deployment,
Hardware Configuration, Change Configuration Settings
 iDRAC Express/Enterprise - Power On a Server, Link and Launch iDRAC
 OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) Agent — Required for all Dell servers prior to Dell
PowerEdge 12th generation servers
 The manual installation of the OMSA agent on Dell PowerEdge 11
th
Generation hosts is no
longer required on all ESX/ESXi hosts prior to the Dell Management Plug-in installation. The
OMSA agent is installed automatically during deployment. In addition, the Dell Management
Plug-in provides options to install OMSA as part of acquiring host compliance.
For the management, we support the following:
Management support Table 3.
Hypervisor version
OMSA version
ESX 4.1
OMSA 6.5
ESXi 4.1
OMSA 6.5 VIB
ESX 4.1 U1
OMSA 6.5
ESXi 4.1 U1
OMSA 6.5 VIB
ESX 4.1 U2
OMSA 7.0
ESXi 4.1 U2
OMSA 7.0 VIB
ESXi 4.1 U3
OMSA 7.2 VIB
ESX 4.1 U3
OMSA 7.2
ESXi 5.0
OMSA 7.1 VIB
ESXi 5.0 U1
OMSA 7.1 VIB
ESXi 5.1
OMSA 7.1 VIB