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Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Enabling a Dell Server for Server Management in vCenter
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2. Host is not reachable from appliance; if hosts are added with the DNS names or FQDN in
the vCenter server, then make sure that appliance can access those hosts via the DNS
configuration present in the appliance.
3. Any other networking and/or routing problems; check the network and DNS configuration
in the appliance.
Pre 12
th
Generation Dell servers – iDRAC Credentials will fail for one of the following cases:
a. iDRAC is not present on the server.
b. Any condition mentioned above for Pre-Dell 12
th
Generation PowerEdge Server Host Credentials
failure is true.
c. iDRAC credentials are incorrect.
d. Not able to reach the iDRAC – common issues included:
1. iDRAC is not online or rebooting/resetting.
2. iDRAC is not reachable from appliance; check appliance’s network configuration.
2.
Dell 12
th
Generation DellPowerEdge S servers
– Host Credentials will fail for one of the following cases:
a. Credentials changed to incorrect credentials for a host in a connection profile which has lockdown
mode disabled.
b. After adding a host to connection profile which has lockdown mode disabled, lockdown mode is
enabled on that host. Test will fail for at least next 30 minutes for this host.
12
th
Generation Dell servers – iDRAC Credentials will fail for one of the following cases:
a. Any condition mentioned above for Dell 12
th
Generation PowerEdge Server12
th
Generation Host
Credentials failure is true.
b. Not able to reach the iDRAC, as mentioned above.
Here is an example screen of a “Test Connection” in action.
Figure 11 Example of Ttest Cconnection Figure 1.Figure 9.