Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter Version 1.
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Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes Contents Introduction ........................................................................................................... 5 BIOS/iDRAC Co-requirement for Lifecycle Controllers.......................................................... 5 Hardware and software requirements ............................................................................. 7 Supported browsers ................................................................
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes Table 14. Feature Support ......................................................................................... 11 Table 15. Virtual appliance ........................................................................................ 12 Table 16. Managed nodes .......................................................................................... 12 Table 17. Upgrade Repository Path information. ................................
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes Introduction This file contains updated information for your Dell™ Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter and any other technical documentation included with Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter software. NOTE: Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter is available from http://www.dell.com/vcenterplugin.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes Server Version PowerEdge T410 PowerEdge T610 PowerEdge T710 1.9.0 6.1.0 6.1.0 Table 2. BIOS for Dell PowerEdge 12TH generation servers System BIOS version T320 1.0.1 T420 1.0.1 T620 1.2.6 M420 1.2.4 M520 1.2.6 M620 1.2.6 M820 1.2.6 R320 R420 R520 R620 R720 R720xd R820 1.2.4 1.2.4 1.2.4 1.2.6 1.2.6 1.2.6 1.1.5 Table 3.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes Version iDRAC version for Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers Version number/Release date 1.00.0 or later Hardware and software requirements The following support matrix tables detail the VMware version and Management Plug-in functional support for Dell PowerEdge 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th generation Dell servers. OpenManage 6.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes For Hypervisor deployment, we support the following: Table 6. Hypervisor deployment versions Hypervisor version ESX 4.1 OMSA version 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 ESX 4.1 U3 OMSA/ 7.2 ESXi 4.1 U3 OMSA 7.2 VIB ESXi 5.0 OMSA 7.0 VIB ESXi 5.0 U1 OMSA 7.1 VIB ESXi 5.0 U2 OMSA 7.3 ESXi 5.1 OMSA 7.1 VIB ESXi 5.1 U1 OMSA 7.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes Space required for provisioned storage The Dell Management Plug-in virtual appliance requires 36.083 GB of disk space for provisioned storage. PowerEdge 12th generation servers Table 7. VMware Version Support Model VMware versions ESX Classic, ESXi Installable R220 R320 R420 R520 R620 R720 R720XD R820 R920 M420 M520 M620 M820 T320 T620 Table 8.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes PowerEdge 11th generation servers Table 9.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes Table 10.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes Port information NOTE: When deploying the OMSA agent using the Fix non-compliant vSphere hosts link available from the Compliance window in the Dell Management Center, the Dell Management Plug-in starts the http Client service and enables port 8080 on and releases after ESXi 5.0 to download OMSA VIB and install it. Once the OMSA installation is completed, the service automatically stops and the port is closed. Table 15.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes This is a known issue from VMware and the resolution is in the VMware knowledge base article found here: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displa yKC&externalId=2000476 or here: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes Figure 1. Incorrect warning is displayed. Time stamps are converted to the user’s local time zone and the Dell Management Plugin displays Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) time offsets. If you run a security scanner tool (such as Nessus) against the Server Administrator Web server, certain security warnings against port 1311 running the Server Administrator Web server may be displayed.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes The solution to this issue is to use a server with an up to date BIOS as a reference server for a hardware profile. Note: Servers being used for deployment should also have updated BIOS. If deployment tries to apply settings to a server with problematic BIOS, deployment fails. Currently the BIOS version is not checked for compliance, but it is displayed on the server compliance page.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes Version Affected: All Issue 3: While running the Firmware Update wizard, at the datacenter or cluster level, an error message “The firmware repository file does not exist or is invalid.” may display. This may be due to a daily background process that was unable to download and cache the catalog file from the repository. This occurs if the catalog file is not reachable at the time the background process runs. .
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes Version Affected: All Issue 7: Run inventory job prior to initiating firmware updates. Description: When conducting firmware updates on Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers, update jobs may have been scheduled for components that were not updatable using the Lifecycle Controller, and thus are not updatable from within the Dell Management Plug-in.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes reboot tasks will fail to initiate. Resolution/Workaround: You must not navigate away from the wizard until it closed before selecting any another host in the inventory. Version Affected: All Issue 11: The Service Tag is not displaying during a firmware update. Description: In the firmware inventory and on the Select Update Bundles tab, the Service Tag information is not displaying for Dell PowerEdge 11th generation servers.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes also does not support a dedicated hotspare while applying a hardware profile. Description: Raid Topology does not support a dedicated hotspare in the reference topology and also does not support dedicated hotspare while applying hardware profile. Resolution/Workaround: If you need a dedicated hotspare in reference topology, set up the RAID outside of the Dell Management Plug-in.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes KHEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings. 3. Add a new DWORD value for ReceiveTimeout. 4. Set the value to 30 seconds (30000) [This may need to try higher value in your environment]. 5. Exit RegEdit. 6. Restart Internet Explorer. Note: Just opening a new Internet Explorer window is not enough. You must restart the Internet Explorer browser. 7.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes Issue 18: After deploying ESX 4.1u3(800380), OMSA is not configured. Description: ESX 4.1 base, U1, U2, and U3 all require SSH to be enabled on Dell PowerEdge 11th generation servers at the time when inventory is run to determine if the OMSA is configured correctly. If Dell Management Plug-in was used to deploy ESX 4.1 base, u1, u2, u3, it installs and configures OMSA correctly.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes Issue 21: Balloon driver or vMotion is not functioning as expected. Description: VMware tools are out of date causing potential issues like the balloon driver or vMotion not to functioning as expected. Resolution/Workaround: Tools can be updated by powering the virtual machine down and changing the virtual machine type to Linux/Centos 32 bit. Once the virtual machine comes back online do an automatic upgrade of the tools.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes Issue 24: Unable to boot to service partition while deploying OS ISO. Description: Hypervisor deployments are failing on Dell 11th and 12th generation servers with this error displayed on the screen during POST: “Warning: Unable to boot to Service Partition.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes profile and failed. Resolution/Workaround: If an inventory job is started, and hosts are removed from the connection profile, then this issue appears. The system needs to make sure the inventory job is finished or that no Inventory job is running when hosts are removed from Connection Profile. Version Affected: 1.5.1, 1.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes latest version of OMSA available. Version Affected: All Issue 31: A non-compliant server shows a CSIOR status as Unknown. Resolution: An unknown CSIOR state indicates a non-responsive iDRAC on the host. A manual iDRAC reset on the host fixes this problem. Version Affected: 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.6 and later Issue 32: The Launch OMSA link does not work in the vSphere Client Dell Tab when using Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes Dell PowerEdge 11th generation servers and Dell PowerEdge 12th generation servers. Resolution: None. Version Affected: 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.6 and later Issue 36: Details for tasks are not recorded in the task history. Description: Details for tasks are not recorded in the task history. Resolution: This is a known VMware issue; go to the Dell Management Center Plug-in logs to view the details.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.7 Release Notes Issue 5 Issue 6 Issue 7 R810, Broadcom NetXtreme II FW missing from ftp.dell.com R810, PERC H700 FW update not listed with local report. A user saw a message saying that there was a missing or expired 11th generation server license. Issue 8 Issue 9 Custom Raid Configuration from UI is misleading. Hardware Profile for iDRAC/network settings has incorrect modifiable parameters.
