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Hardware and Software Requirements

The following support matrix tables detail the VMware version and Management Plug-in functional support

for Dell PowerEdge 9th, 10th, 11

, and 12

generation Dell servers.

 OpenManage 6.4 agent or greater - SNMP alerts, Hardware Inventory, Blink Server LED, View/Clear

SEL logs

 Lifecycle Controller 1.5.2 or later - BIOS/Firmware Updates, Bare metal Deployment, Hardware Configuration,

Change Configuration Settings

 iDRAC Express/Enterprise - Power On a Server, Link and Launch iDRAC

OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) Agent — Required for all Dell servers prior to Dell

PowerEdge 12th generation servers

 The manual installation of the OMSA agent on Dell PowerEdge 11

Generation hosts is no longer

required on all ESX/ESXi hosts prior to the Dell Management Plug-in installation. With this release,

the OMSA agent is installed automatically during deployment. In addition, the Dell Management

Plug-in provides options to install OMSA as part of acquiring host compliance.

For the management, we support the following:

Table 3 – Management Support

Hypervisor Version

OMSA version

ESX 4.0 U2

OMSA 6.4

ESXi 4.0 U2

OMSA 6.4 VIB

ESX 4.0 U3

OMSA 7.0

ESXi 4.0 U3

OMSA 7.0 VIB

ESX 4.1

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

ESXi 5.0

OMSA 7.0 VIB

ESXi 5.0 U1

OMSA 7.1 VIB