Release Notes

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Description: VMware tools are out of date causing potential issues like the balloon driver or vMotion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. Detailed steps are located at our tech center site:

http://www.DellTechCenter.com/DMPVV

Version Affected: 1.6 and later

Issue 22: Deployments failure error message seen on R210 II machines.

Description: Timeout issue on R210 II systems produces a hypervisor deployments failure error due to

failure of BIOS to boot from attached ISO.

Resolution/Workaround: Manually install hypervisor on the machine.

Version Affected: 1.5.1, 1.6

Issue 23: Dell Management Plug-in gets a security error message.

Description: Although the SSL Certificate is valid on a vCenter and user credentials are correct,

a user encounters an error message saying , “There are either too many Virtual Management

Console connections or an incorrect user name or password or session ID, or an incorrect SSL

certificate. Please verify these items and try again.”

Resolution/Workaround: This happens due to an invalid session in vCenter. Simply closing and

re-opening the vSphere client resolves seeing this error message. You can check your session by

clicking “Sessions” under Administration in the vSphere Client for advanced troubleshooting.

Version Affected: 1.5.1, 1.6 and later