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12. Depending on the vCenter configuration, one of the following options displays:
– If resource pools are configured — On the Resource Pool page, select the pool of virtual servers to which
the Dell Management Plug-in will be deployed.
– If resource pools are not configured — On the Hosts/Clusters page, select the host or cluster to which the
Dell Management Plug-in will be deployed.
13. If there is more than one datastore available on the host, the Datastore page displays. Select the location for
storing Dell Management Plug-in files, and click
Next.
14. In the Disk Format window, select the format in which you want to store the virtual disks:
a. Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed
A lazy-zeroed thick disk has all the disk space allocated at the time of creation, but each block is zeroed only
on first write. This results in a shorter creation time, but reduced performance the first time a block is written
to. Subsequent writes have the same performance as eager-zeroed thick disks.
b. Thick Provision Eager Zeroed [Recommended]
An eager-zeroed thick disk has all the space allocated and zeroed out at the time of creation. This type of disk
increases the time it takes to create the disk, but results in the best performance, even on the first write to
each block.
c. Thin Provision [Not Recommended]
Space required for a thin-provisioned virtual disk is allocated and zeroed upon first write, as opposed to upon
creation. There is a higher I/O cost (similar to that of lazy-zeroed thick disks) during the first write to an
unwritten file block, but on subsequent writes thin-provisioned disks have the same performance as eager-
zeroed thick disks.
15. Click Next.
16. In the Ready to Complete window, review the selected options for the OVF deployment task and click Finish. The
deployment job runs and provides a completion status window where you can track job progress.
Registering Dell Management Plug-in within vCenter And Importing The License File
This procedure assumes that you have downloaded the product license zip file (Dell_Management_Plug-in_<# of
hosts>_license.zip) from the Dell website and run Dell_Management_Plug-in_<# of hosts>_license.exe to get the license
XML file. The license XML file is used in this procedure.
1. From vSphere client, select Home → Hosts and Clusters, then in the left panel, locate the Dell Management Plug-in
just deployed, and then click
Power on the virtual machine.
2. Click the Console tab in the main VMware vCenter window to initiate the Administration Console.
3. Allow the Dell Management Plug-in to finish booting up and then enter the user name for the administrator (the
default is Admin), and set a password.
4. Configure the Dell Management Plug-in network and time zone information.
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