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Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade
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Contents
Introduction .............................................................................................................. 5
Audience and scope ................................................................................................... 5
Prerequisites ........................................................................................................... 5
Installation ............................................................................................................... 5
Extracting the Dell Management Plug-in .......................................................................... 6
Deploying the Dell Management Plug-in OVF file ................................................................ 7
Purchasing the Dell Management Plug-in ......................................................................... 12
Understanding the Dell Management Plug-in user interfaces ................................................. 12
Administration Portal ............................................................................................... 13
Dell Management Center ........................................................................................... 14
Dell Tab within VMware vCenter .................................................................................. 15
Registering Dell Management Plug-in within vCenter and importing the license file ..................... 16
Registering the Dell Management Plug-in ........................................................................ 17
Updating the appliance .............................................................................................. 18
Updating appliance using the Administration Portal .......................................................... 18
Changing the Update Repository Path ........................................................................... 19
Updating the virtual appliance .................................................................................... 20
Updating using the new OVF ........................................................................................ 21
Restoring the 1.0 appliance data to the 1.5 appliance ....................................................... 22
Conclusion .............................................................................................................. 23
References ............................................................................................................. 23
Figures
Figure 1. The Web portal for registering and managing the virtual appliance ............................ 13
Figure 2. Manage configuration, compliance, and connection profiles for a particular host .......... 14
Figure 3. Manage appliance health, inventory, storage, firmware, and warranty. ...................... 15
Figure 4. Appliance update information ......................................................................... 19
Figure 5. Editing the update repository path ................................................................... 20
Figure 6. Updating the virtual appliance ........................................................................ 20
Figure 7. Backing up data .......................................................................................... 21
Figure 8. Unregistering vCenter ................................................................................... 22
Figure 9. Restoring Data ............................................................................................ 23