Compatibility Matrix

Important notes

This section provides important information that you must consider when you are working on OpenManage Integration for VMware

vCenter.

• OMIVV supports BIOS mode to deploy hypervisor on the target server. Ensure that you have BIOS mode selected in the reference

hardware profile before applying the hypervisor profile. If there is no hardware profile selected, ensure that you manually configure the

Boot mode as BIOS and reboot the server before applying the hypervisor profile.

• OMIVV currently supports only the community named "Public" or "public". The SNMP community name is not configurable. If another

community name is used, the events are not received by OMIVV and the events are not displayed in the VMware vCenter.

• A hardware profile created using a reference server with a certain BIOS version can cause deployment to fail. Some BIOS versions do

not provide accurate information for certain BIOS settings, such as the Embedded NIC1 and NIC2 settings. When a server with the

minimum BIOS version is used as a reference server in a hardware profile, the fields are ignored by both the UI and deployment. An

issue may occur, however, if the settings in question are required to have a certain value for deployment to complete successfully. The

solution to this issue is to use a server with up-to-date BIOS as a reference server for a hardware profile.

NOTE: Servers being used for deployment should also have updated BIOS. If deployment tries to apply settings to a

server with issues in BIOS, deployment fails. Currently the BIOS version is not checked for compliance, but it is

displayed on the server compliance page. Warnings are displayed on the hardware profile reference server and BIOS

settings pages and when you select a deployment template with an affected hardware profile during deployment.

• OMIVV registered with the VMware vCenter by using Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) is highly recommended. For FQDN-based

registrations, the host name of the vCenter should be properly resolvable by the DNS server.

NOTE: For more information about the DNS requirements for vSphere, see the following links:

○ DNS requirements for vSphere 5.5

○ DNS requirements for vSphere 6.0

○ DNS requirements for vSphere 6.5 and Platform Services Controller appliance

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