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• Creating deployment templates

• About Deployment Wizard

• Deployment job timing

• Downloading custom Dell ISO images

Device discovery

Discovery is the process of adding supported Dell PowerEdge bare-metal server. After a server is discovered, you can use it for hypervisor

and hardware deployment. See OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Compatibility Matrix for the list of the PowerEdge servers

required for deployment. The network connectivity from the Dell bare-metal server’s iDRAC to the OMIVV virtual machine is required.

NOTE: The hosts with existing hypervisors should not be discovered into OMIVV, instead they should be added to the

vCenter. Add them to a connection profile, and then reconcile with the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter by

using the host compliance wizard.

NOTE: If bare-metal servers were discovered earlier than OMIVV 4.0, ensure that you remove the machines from the

bare-metal server list and rediscover them.

Manual discovery

You can manually add a bare-metal server that is not added by the discovery process. Once added, the server is displayed in the list of

servers in the Deployment Wizard.

1. In OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter, on the Manage > Deployment tab, click the icon.

The Add Server dialog box is displayed.

2. In the Add Server dialog box, do the following:

a. In the iDRAC IP Address text box, enter the iDRAC IP Address.

b. In the User Name text box, enter the user name.

c. In the Password text box, enter the password

3. Click Add Server.

The task of adding the server might take few minutes to complete.

Auto discovery in OpenManage Integration for VMware

vCenter

Auto discovery is the process of adding an 11th, 12th, or 13th generation of Dell PowerEdge bare-metal server. Once a server is

discovered, use it for hypervisor and hardware deployment. Auto discovery is an iDRAC feature that removes the need of manually

discovering a bare-metal server from OMIVV.

Auto discovery prerequisites

Before attempting to discover the 11th, 12th, or later generation Dell PowerEdge bare-metal servers, ensure that OMIVV has been already

installed. The Dell 11th, 12th, 13th generation of PowerEdge servers with iDRAC Express or iDRAC Enterprise can be discovered into a pool

of bare-metal servers. Ensure that there is network connectivity from the Dell bare-metal server’s iDRAC to the OMIVV appliance.

NOTE:

The hosts with existing hypervisors should not be discovered in to OMIVV, instead add the hypervisor to a

connection profile, and then reconcile with OMIVV by using the Host Compliance Wizard.

For auto discovery to occur, the following conditions must be met:

• Power—ensure that you connect the server to the power outlet. The server need not be powered on.

• Network connectivity—ensure that the server’s iDRAC has network connectivity and communicates with the provisioning server over

port 4433. You can obtain the IP address by using a DHCP server or manually specify it in the iDRAC configuration utility.

• Additional network settings—ensure that you enable Get DNS server address from DHCP setting, if using DHCP, so that DNS name

resolution can occur.

• Provisioning service location—ensure that iDRAC knows the IP address or host name of the provisioning service server. See

Provisioning service location.

• Account access disabled—ensure that you enable the administrative account access to iDRAC and if there are any iDRAC accounts

with administrator privileges, first disable them from within the iDRAC web console. Once auto discovery completes successfully, the

administrative iDRAC account is re-enabled.

Deploying hypervisor