Users Guide

Introduction

IT administrators use VMware vCenter as the primary console to manage and monitor VMware vSphere ESX/ESXi hosts. OpenManage

Integration for VMware vCenter (OMIVV) enables you to manage the Dell hosts better from the VMware web client by providing

enhanced capabilities for deployment, manage, monitor and upgrade.

Topics:

• What's new in this release

• OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter features

What's new in this release

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

• Support for vSphere 6.5 and 6.0 U2

• Support for vSphere 6.5 Proactive HA and customize severity of the Dell host and chassis components

• Support for parallel firmware update jobs on multiple clusters

• Support for integration with vRealize Operations

• Support for OMSA 8.3 and OMSA 8.4

• Notification on the availability of latest version of OMIVV

• Support for up to 1000 hosts with a single vCenter instance or multiple vCenters

• Support for all 13th generation platforms

OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter

features

Following are the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter (OMIVV) appliance features:

Table 1. OMIVV features

Features Description

Inventory The inventory feature provides the following:

• Dell PowerEdge server details, such as memory—quantity and

type, NIC, PSU, processors, RAC, warranty information, server,

cluster, and data center level view.

• Chassis details, such as chassis management controller

information, chassis power supply, KVM status, fan/thermal

details, warranty information, empty switch/server details.

Monitor and send alerts The monitoring and alerting includes the following functionalities:

• Detect key hardware faults, and perform virtualization-aware

actions. For example, migrate workloads or place host in

maintenance mode.

• Provide intelligence such as, inventory, events, alarms to

diagnose server problems.

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

OS on the bare-metal Dell PowerEdge servers by using VMware

vCenter without using PXE.

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