Users Guide

Select an individual vCenter for those not configured 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 configure settings.
3. Click Next to proceed to the Connection Profile description page.
NOTE: If you have multiple vCenter servers as a part of the same SSO and if you chose to configure a single vCenter
server, the following steps must be repeated until you configure each vCenter.
Creating A New Connection Profile using the Initial
Configuration Wizard
A connection profile 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 profile to be managed by the OMIVV. You may assign multiple servers to a single connection
profile. You can create the Connection Profile using the Configuration 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 profile, the Active Directory user’s account
must exist in Active Directory and the iDRAC and host must be configured 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 profile if the number of hosts added exceeds the license limit for creating
a Connection Profile.
To create a new connection profile using the Configuration Wizard:
1. In the Connection Profile Description page, click Next.
2. In the Name and Credentials page, enter the Connection Profile Name and an optional Connection Profile 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 firmware, applying hardware profiles, and
deploying hypervisor.
• For iDRACs already configured and enabled for Active Directory on which you want to use Active Directory, select Use Active
Directory; otherwise skip down to configure 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 certificate and validate it during all future connections, select Enable Certificate
Check.
• To not store and perform the iDRAC certificate checking during all future connections, clear Enable Certificate Check.
• To configure 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.
• In Verify Password, type the password again.
• Perform one of the following actions:
• To download and store the iDRAC certificate and validate it during all future connections, select Enable Certificate
Check.
• To not store and perform the iDRAC certificate check during all future connections, clear Enable Certificate Check.
4. In the Host Root area, do one of the following:
• For hosts already configured and enabled for Active Directory on which you want to use Active Directory, select Use Active
Directory ; otherwise configure your Host 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.
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