User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Notes, Cautions, and Warnings
- Overview
- Dell Management Plug-in Configuration
- Understanding How To Configure or Edit the Dell Management Plug-in
- Dell Management Plug-In Home Page
- Configuration Wizard Welcome Page
- Creating A New Connection Profile [Wizard]
- Configuring Events And Alarms [Wizard]
- Setting Up A Proxy Server [Wizard]
- Scheduling Inventory Jobs [Wizard]
- Running A Warranty Retrieval Job [Wizard]
- Configuring the Deployment Credentials [Wizard]
- Setting The Default Firmware Update Repository [Wizard]
- Enabling The OMSA Link [Wizard]
- Configuring Dell iDRAC Auto-Discovery And Initial Start-up
- Configuring NFS Shares
- Settings Overview
- About Host, Bare Metal, and iDRAC Compliance Issues
- Upgrading Dell Management Plug-In For VMware VCenter
- About Dell Management Plug-in Licensing
- End-To-End Hardware Management
- Monitoring the Datacenter And Host System
- vSphere Client Host Overview
- About Inventory Schedule
- Viewing Storage Inventory
- Viewing Host Power Monitoring
- Displaying The Entire Datacenter Hardware Configuration And Status
- Managing Connection Profiles
- Understanding System Event Logs In vSphere Client Host View
- About Firmware Updates
- Advanced Host Management Using vCenter
- Zero-Touch Hardware Provisioning And Deployment
- Hardware Prerequisites
- Provisioning Overview
- Understanding Deployment Job Times
- Server States Within The Deployment Sequence
- Downloading Custom Dell ISO Images
- Understanding How To Configure A Hardware Profile
- About Managing Hardware Profiles
- Creating A New Hypervisor Profile
- Managing Hypervisor Profiles
- Building A New Deployment Template
- Running The Deployment Wizard
- Deployment Wizard - Step 1: Select Servers
- Deployment Wizard Step 2: Deployment Templates
- Deployment Wizard Step 3: Global Settings
- Deployment Wizard Step 4: Server Identification
- Deployment Wizard Step 5: Connection Profile
- Deployment Wizard Step 6: Scheduling Jobs
- Understanding Job Queue
- Adding A Server Manually
- Removing A Bare Metal Server
- Dell Management Plug-In Administration
- Web-based Administration Portal
- Managing vCenter Server Connections
- Virtual Appliance Management
- Setting Up Global Alerts
- Managing Backup And Restore
- Understanding vSphere Client Console Tab
- Troubleshooting
- Upgrading Issues
- Common Questions
- How Do I Test Event Settings By Using OMSA To Simulate A Temperature Hardware Fault?
- I Have The OMSA Agent Installed On A Dell Host System, But I Still Get An Error Message That OMSA Is Not Installed.What Should I Do?
- Can The Dell Management Plug-in Support ESX/ESXI with Lockdown Mode Enabled?
- Inventory is Failing on Hosts ESXi 4.0 Update2 and ESXi Update 3 in Lockdown Mode After a Reboot.
- When I tried to use lockdown mode, it failed.
- What Setting Should I Use For UserVars.CIMoeMProviderEnable With ESXi 4.1 U1?
- I Am Using A Reference Server To Create A Hardware Profile But It Failed. What Should I Do?
- I Am Attempting To Deploy ESX/ESXi On A Blade Server And It Failed. What Should I Do?
- Why Do I See Auto-discovered Systems Without Model Information In The Deployment Wizard
- The NFS Share Is Set Up With The ESX/ESXI ISO, But Deployment Fails With Errors Mounting The Share Location.
- How Do I Force Removal Of The Virtual Appliance?
- Entering A Password In The Backup Now Screen Receives An Error Message
- In vSphere, Clicking The Dell Server Management Tab Or Dell Management Icon Returns A 404 Error
- My Firmware Update Failed. What Do I Do?
- My vCenter Update Failed. What Can I Do?
- Performance during Connection Profile Test Credentials is extremely slow or unresponsive
- Bare Metal Deployment Issues
- Contacting Dell
- Where To Get Additional Help For This Software
- Dell Management Plug-in For VMware vCenter Related Information
- Virtualization—Related Events

3. Click Delete on the message box to delete the template, or click Cancel to cancel.
Renaming a Deployment Template
To rename deployment template:
1. In the Dell Management Center, select Deployment → Deployment Templates .
2. On the Deployment Templates page, select a template, click Rename.
3. Enter the template's new name and click Apply. The template must have a unique name.
4. To display all updated deployment templates, from the Dell Management Center select Deployment → Deployment
Templates
and click Refresh.
Running The Deployment Wizard
The Deployment Wizard steps you through the bare metal server deployment process of:
• Selecting undeployed servers.
When you deploy hypervisor, you can deploy to an Internal Dual SD Module with a minimum of 1 GB of storage.
The Internal Dual SD Module must be enabled from the BIOS before you deploy the hypervisor with the Dell
Management Plug-in.
• Using a deployment template (hardware and hypervisor profiles combination).
• Setting up global settings. This page lets you choose to deploy hypervisor to a hard disk or Internal Dual SD
Module.
• Assigning identification to the deployed servers.
• Matching a desired connection profile to each server.
• Scheduling the server deployment jobs to run.
• Displaying the Job Queue where you can manage deployment jobs.
NOTE: If you’re deploying a hardware profile only, then the new Global Settings, Server Identification, and
Connection Profile pages are skipped and you go directly to the Schedule Job page.
Related Tasks:
• Deployment Wizard Step 1: Selecting Servers
• Deployment Wizard Step 2: Deployment Templates
• Deployment Wizard Step 3: Global Settings
• Deployment Wizard Step 4: Server Identification
• Deployment Wizard Step 5: Connection Profile
• Deployment Wizard Step 6: Schedule Jobs
Deployment Wizard - Step 1: Select Servers
This page covers server deployment. If you want to deploy hypervisor to an Internal Dual SD Module, this page displays
whether that option is available or unavailable. For more information about Internal Dual SD Modules see,
Running The
Deployment Wizard. If the server you want to deploy does not display in the list for step 2, you can manually add a server
to have it display in the list for this step, see Adding A Server Manually.
To select servers:
1. In the Dell Management Center, select Deployment → Deployment Wizard .
2. In the Select Servers window, to assign non-deployed servers to this deployment job, use the check boxes to select
Servers.
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