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Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Discovery of Dell Bare-Metal Servers
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Troubleshooting
The IDRAC trace log
You can obtain information about the Auto-Discovery process by examining the iDRAC trace log of the
system that is attempting Auto-Discovery. Access this log in several ways, such as using the RACLOG or
using the troubleshooting section of the iDRAC Web console, and invoking racadm gettracelog and look
for messages with the source idrac_discovery. For more information about querying using the RACLOG
or the troubleshooting section of the iDRAC Web console, see the iDRAC6 User’s Guide.
Conclusion
The Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter has features that simplify the deployment of
hypervisors to Dell PowerEdge 11th Generation and later bare-metal servers. You can manually add
servers to the pool of bare-metal servers one at a time. The process can be automated for larger
rollouts by ordering the servers pre-configured to arrive from the factory ready for Auto-Discovery.