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Installing Dell OpenManage Essentials on a Domain Controller
Executive Summary
Dell OpenManage Essentials is web-based, one-to-many system management solution that provides a
comprehensive view of Dell systems, devices and components in an enterprise. To know more about
OpenManage Essentials, visit www.delltechcentre.com/ome
.
This document describes the installation of OpenManage Essentials on a domain controller, including
the installation steps and information you can make use of during the installation.
You can install OpenManage Essentials on a domain controller in one of the following ways:
Install OpenManage Essentials with a remote database
Install OpenManage Essentials with a local database
Minimum Installation Requirements
Installing OpenManage Essentials on a domain controller requires the minimum software, network and
system requirements detailed in the following tables. You must have system administrator privileges to
perform the installation.
Table 1. Minimum recommended hardware
Minimum
recommended
hardware
Large
deployments
Large
deployments
Medium
deployments
Small
deployments
Number of devices
Up to 4000
Up to 2000
Up to 500
Up to 100
Type of system
Physical machines/
virtual machines
Physical machines/
virtual machines
Physical machines/
virtual machines
Physical machines/
virtual machines
RAM
8 GB
8 GB
6 GB
4 GB
Processors
8 cores total
8 cores total
4 cores total
2 cores total
Database
SQL standard
SQL standard
SQL Express
SQL Express
Database location
Remote
Remote
Local
Local
Hard drive
20 GB
10 GB
6 GB
6 GB
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