Users Guide

Introduction

VMware vCenter is the primary console used by IT administrators to manage and monitor VMware vSphere ESX/ESXi hosts. In a

standard virtualized environment, VMware alerts and monitoring are used to prompt you to launch a separate console to resolve hardware

issues. OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter is a product that lets you manage VMware vCenter servers from within the

VMware Web client and free you from being tied to a Windows system. Using OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter, you have

capabilities to manage and monitor Dell hardware within the virtualized environment, such as:

• Alerts and environmental monitoring: Detect key hardware faults and perform virtualization-aware actions (for example, migrate

workloads or place host in maintenance mode).

• Single server monitoring and reporting: Monitoring and reporting capabilities of servers.

• Firmware updates: Update Dell hardware to the most recent version of BIOS and firmware.

• Enhanced deployment options: Create hardware profiles, hypervisor profiles, and deploy any combination of the two on bare-metal Dell

PowerEdge servers, remotely and without PXE—using vCenter

Topics:

• OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Features

• What's new in this release

OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter

Features

You can use the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter to perform:

Inventory

Inventory key assets, perform configuration tasks, and provide cluster and datacenter views of Dell platforms.

Monitoring and

Alerting

Detect key hardware faults and perform virtualization-aware actions (for example, migrate workloads or place

host in maintenance mode). Provide additional intelligence (inventory, events, alarms) to diagnose server

problems. Report at the datacenter and cluster view and export to CSV file.

Firmware Updates Update Dell hardware to the most recent version of BIOS and firmware.

Deployment and

Provisioning

Create hardware profiles, hypervisor profiles, and remotely deploy any combination of the two on bare-metal Dell

PowerEdge servers using VMware vCenter, without using PXE.

Service

Information

Retrieve warranty information from Dell online.

Security Role and

Permissions

Integrate with standard vCenter authentication, rules, and permissions.

What's new in this release

This release of OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter provides the following features:

• Support for Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) version 8.5

• Support for VMware vCenter server version 6.0 U3

• Support for VMware ESXi version 6.0 U3

• Support for PowerEdge R830 platform

• Support for Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) Fault Resilient Memory (FRM)

NOTE:

The Auto discovery feature is not functional in this release. For more details about this, see OMIVV cannot act as

a provisioning server during the auto discovery process

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