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book.book Page 2 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM Notes and Cautions NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss of data if instructions are not followed. ____________________ Information in this document is subject to change without notice. © 2009 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction of this material in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Inc.
book.book Page 3 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM Contents 1 Microsoft SCE/SCVMM Integrated Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prerequisites for Installing Essentials on Windows Server 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . 5 . . . . . . . . 6 Installing the Integrated Solution on Dell Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 All Components of Integrated Environment on a Single System . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Integrated Environment with User Consoles Located on a Remote System . .
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book.book Page 5 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM Microsoft SCE/SCVMM Integrated Solution Dell™ is working with Microsoft® to provide the OEM version of the Microsoft System Center Essentials (SCE or Essentials) 2007 SP1 and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM or VMM) 2008. You can use SCE and SCVMM either independently or with various Dell Management Packs (MPs) to get different levels of capabilities from your infrastructure. This sections lists these capabilities.
book.book Page 6 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM Prerequisites for Installing Essentials on Windows Server 2008 Install the hot fixes mentioned in this section before installing Essentials. The System Center Operations Manager 2007 console may stop responding in Windows Server 2008 or in Windows Vista when you open the Health Explorer window. For more information, see KB article 951327.
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book.book Page 8 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM Installing Essentials on a Dell PowerEdge System 1 Install Microsoft .NET 3.0: For Windows 2008, install .NET 3.0 by adding .NET Framework 3.0 features from the Server Manager. For Windows 2003, download .NET 3.0 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=10cc340bf857-4a14-83f5-25634c3bf043&displaylang=en To install .NET 2.0, download the latest .NET 2.0 for X86 Windows 2003 from http://go.microsoft.
book.book Page 9 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM FTPPublishingService;IIS-FTPServer;IIS-FTPManagement;WASWindowsActivationService;WAS-ProcessModel;WASNetFxEnvironment;WAS-ConfigurationAPI 3 Install SQL Server 2005 SP2. For X86 Windows 2003, X86 Windows 2008, and X64 Windows 2008 you can install SQL Express that is part of the installation media. For X64 Windows 2003, do not use SQL Express that is part of the installation media. 4 Insert the Essentials DVD into the DVD drive. 5 Run SetupSCE.
book.book Page 10 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM Installing SCVMM Server on the Management Station Where Essentials is Already Installed For more information, see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc793149.aspx Configuring Essentials 2007 SP1 Integration With VMM 2008 Run the setup from the System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 DVD and select Configure Operations Manager.
book.book Page 11 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM Integrated Environment with User Consoles Located on a Remote System This installation option enables you to use Essentials and VMM remotely by installing the user consoles of the two products on different systems. Management Server installed with Essentials and VMM Essentials and VMM Consoles installed on remote system To install this option: 1 Complete the procedure defined in "All Components of Integrated Environment on a Single System.
book.book Page 12 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM Installing and Connecting to the SCVMM 2008 User Console 1 Launch the VMM 2008 Setup Wizard. 2 Select User Console and follow the instructions on the wizard to complete the installation. 3 After installation is complete, launch VMM User Console. 4 In the Console window provide the host name of the VMM Server Host to connect to it.
book.book Page 13 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM 3 After installing Essentials, you must create a hard link using fsutil.exe tool. See "Creating Hard Link Using fsutil.exe." 4 To install VMM with remote database, select the remote database instance instead of local in the Database Instance Selection pane of VMM installation wizard. NOTE: For information on configuring the SQL Database for remote connection, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914277.
book.book Page 14 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM Installing Essentials and VMM on Different Systems This installation option allows you to integrate Essentials and VMM installed on multiple systems. Essentials Management Server. VMM Console installed here for integration SCVMM Management Server 1 Install Essential on the management station. For more information, see "Installing Essentials on a Dell PowerEdge System." 2 After installing Essentials, you must create a hard link using fsutil.exe tool.
book.book Page 15 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM The following management packs are available as part of Management Pack version 3.1.1 to manage Dell Hardware: • Dell Server and Printer Management Pack: You can use Dell Server and Printer management pack to discover and manage Dell PowerEdge/ PowerVault Server systems, Out-Of-Band DRAC and Chassis Management Controller (CMC), and Dell printers.
book.book Page 16 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM • Provides enhanced attribute support for storage controllers, their components, and health roll-up status (for servers). • Groups Dell systems that do not have Server Administrator installed, have unresponsive instrumentation service, or have Server Administrator earlier than 5.3 under the Unknown category.
book.book Page 17 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM Dell Storage Management Pack: • Discovers and monitors health of components and displays alerts for Dell MD 3000 and MD 3000i Storage Arrays (out-of-band and in-band) • Discovers Dell PowerVault MD1000™, which is daisy-chained to Dell MD3000/MD3000i storage arrays • Manages alerts from Dell MD3000 and Dell MD3000i storage arrays.
book.book Page 18 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM Installing Dell Management Pack and PRO Management Pack To import Dell Management Pack and PROPack, use the Essentials Import Management Pack wizard: 1 Download the Management Packs from the Dell Support website. – Download Dell Management Pack's version 3.1.1 for managing Dell Devices. http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?releaseid=R214547 – Download Dell PROPack Version 1.0 for Dell Servers. http://support.us.dell.
book.book Page 19 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM Standalone Essentials Environment–Known Issues • For information on systems that do not receive updates from the WSUS server, see KB article 954960. • For information on the Monitoringhost.exe process that may consume all the CPU resources when a large amount of performance data is created by using a managed data source module in System Center Operations Manager 2007, see KB article 954903.
book.book Page 20 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM • Updates cannot be distributed to managed hosts, or you cannot import updates directly from partners when you import updates from partner catalogs in System Center Essentials 2007.
book.book Page 21 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM supported SQL Server database services instance and reattempt the Essentials setup. This will detect the supported reporting services, and the Database Services instance, the local, and remote SQL Server instance options are enabled. The setup successfully installs Essentials 2007 on Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition. • Enabling RPC over HTTP on 64-bit Internet Information Services 7.0 Web Server results in application pool failures.
book.book Page 22 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM Integrated Essentials and VMM Environment–Known Issues • Physical-to-virtual conversion displays the following error messages. – Error (3154) An internal error has occurred trying to contact an agent on the server. – Internal error code: 0x8099319E Recommended Action: – Ensure the agent is installed and running. Ensure the WMI service is installed and running, then restart the agent. Workaround: a Go to Regedit→ HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Syst
book.book Page 23 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM Dell Management Packs–Known Issues This section provides information on open issues with the Dell Management Pack for Essentials. • The SCOM console displays a run time error with the following message: Runtime Error! Program: C:\Program Fil... R6025 - pure virtual function call. For more information, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951526/en-us.
book.book Page 24 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM • Health service crashes while running the discovery wizard. This is a Microsoft issue where the Discovery wizard displays an exception IPC failed to connect when the health service is unavailable. Health service may be unavailable due to invalid configurations of RMS server as agents of multiple management groups. • You may not able to execute IPMISH tasks when BMU is installed in a non-default location.
book.book Page 25 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM • Operations Manager Health Service may stop due to certain monitor thresholds. The workaround for this issue is to modify the following threshold settings for the monitors: a Go to the Authoring pane b Select Authoring→ Management Pack Objects→ Monitors. c Select Target as Agent. d Select Entity Health→ Performance→ Health Service Performance. • Right-click Health Service Handle Count Threshold.
book.book Page 26 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM • The IPMI Power control and LED Identification tasks shipped with the Dell Management Pack require BMU 2.0 or later to be installed on the Operations Manager Management Server. It also requires default BMC credentials and default path (C:\Program Files\Dell\SysMgt\bmc), which cannot be modified. If your systems have different BMC credentials, install BMU 2.
book.book Page 27 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM • Operations Manager cannot discover DRAC in-band on Dell PowerEdge xx55 systems with modular chassis. Out-of-band is supported for DRAC/MC and DRAC 5 only. • Dell Management Pack Diagram Views display blank screen intermittently. This also happens when you refresh the screen. This is a known Microsoft issue. • Virtual Disk Group Name for Physical Disk is not displayed correctly.
book.book Page 28 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM • On the Discovery wizard, the text on the Cancelar selección button is truncated. • In the Group selection for the Updates Group selection for approval, the text is incorrectly displayed as desinstalar instead of instalar. All status of updates display incorrectly. Useful Microsoft Links and other Resources • Recommended hot fixes for SCVMM 2008: http://support.microsoft.
book.book Page 29 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM Useful Dell Links and other Resources • Dell Update Package (DUP) typically contains feature enhancements or changes that will help keep your system software current and compatible for the corresponding system modules (firmware, BIOS, drivers, and software). To execute a software deploy on Dell Hardware you should have the corresponding DUP. DUPs are available at http://support.us.dell.com.
book.book Page 30 Monday, June 1, 2009 11:44 AM Supported Dell Hardware • All x8xx to xx1x PowerEdge and PowerVault systems as managed devices • All x9xx to xx1x PowerEdge systems as management station. • Dell Remote Access Controllers—DRAC 4, DRAC 5, DRAC/MC, iDRAC Modular, and Chassis Management Controllers (CMC)—part of the Dell PowerEdge systems.
