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Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Working in Linked Mode
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Figure 1. Administration Console registration and licensing
Using multiple appliances
The current licensing allows only three vCenters to be registered with a single appliance; however
multiple appliances may be used. A decision to use multiple appliances can be based on the number of
vCenters, or influenced by geographic, network and domain boundaries.
Another factor for consideration is the Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter appliance also
serves as a Dell provisioning server for Dell bare metal servers. Dell bare metal servers discovered by
the appliance by Auto-Discovery or manually prior to launching a deployment template, are added to a
pool of bare metal servers on the appliance, and are not limited for use by a given vCenter. Servers in
this bare metal server pool are visible and available for hypervisor deployment from any vCenter
registered on the appliance.
The Dell Management Center
Accessing the Dell Management Center using the vSphere Client
The Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter stores the settings separately for each of the
registered vCenters. Because of this, configure the Dell Management Plug-in settings and connection
profiles for each of the registered vCenters. Do this using the Dell Management Center, accessible by
clicking on the Management Center icon from the vSphere Client’s Home view.