Users Guide

Select an individual vCenter for those not congured yet or if you have added a new vCenter to your environment. The vCenter
selection page allows you to select one or more vCenters to congure settings.
3. Click Next to proceed to the Connection Prole description page.
NOTE: If you have multiple vCenter servers as a part of the same SSO and if you chose to congure a single vCenter
server, the following steps must be repeated until you congure each vCenter.
Creating A New Connection Prole using the Initial Conguration
Wizard
A connection prole stores the iDRAC and host credentials that the virtual appliance uses to communicate with Dell servers. Each
Dell server must be associated with a connection prole to be managed by the OMIVV. You may assign multiple servers to a single
connection prole. You can create the Connection Prole using the Conguration Wizard or from OpenManage Integration for
VMware vCenter → Settings.
You can log in to iDRAC and the host using Active directory credentials.
NOTE: Before using the Active Directory credentials with a connection prole, the Active Directory user’s account
must exist in Active Directory and the iDRAC and host must be congured for Active Directory based authentication.
NOTE: The Active Directory credential can be same for both iDRAC and the host or it can be set as separate active
directory credentials. The user credential must have administrative privileges.
NOTE: You cannot create a connection prole if the number of hosts added exceeds the license limit for creating
a Connection Prole.
To create a new connection prole using the Conguration Wizard:
1. In the Connection Prole Description page, click Next.
2. In the Name and Credentials page, enter the Connection Prole Name and an optional Connection Prole Description.
3. In the Name and Credentials page, under iDRAC Credentials, do one of the following:
NOTE: The iDRAC account requires administrative privileges for updating rmware, applying hardware proles, and
deploying hypervisor.
• For iDRACs already congured and enabled for Active Directory on which you want to use Active Directory, select Use
Active Directory; otherwise skip down to congure the iDRAC credentials.
– In Active Directory User Name, type the user name. Type the username in one of these formats: domain/username
or username@domain. The user name is limited to 256 characters. See Microsoft Active Directory documentation for
user name restrictions.
– In Active Directory Password, type the password. The password is limited to 127 characters.
– In Verify Password, type the password again.
– Perform one of the following actions:
* To download and store the iDRAC certicate and validate it during all future connections, select Enable Certicate
Check.
* To not store and perform the iDRAC certicate checking during all future connections, clear Enable Certicate
Check.
• To congure iDRAC credentials without Active Directory, do the following:
– In User Name, type the user name. The user name is limited to 16 characters. See the iDRAC documentation for
information about user name restrictions for your version of iDRAC.
– In Password, type the password. The password is limited to 20 characters.
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