Users Guide

Creating or cloning hardware profile
1. In OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter, on the Manage > Deployment tab, select Deployment Templates > Hardware
Profiles.
2. Click .
3. In the Hardware Profile Wizard, click Next on the Welcome page and perform the following actions:
• In the Profile Name text box, enter the profile name.
• In the Description text box, enter Description. The description is optional.
4. Click Next.
5. To select a reference server that is compliant, managed by vCenter, and successfully inventoried by the Dell EMC OpenManage plugin,
in the Reference Server page, click Browse.
6. To extract all hardware settings from the reference server, click the Clone Reference Server Settings option.
7. Click Next.
Extracting the settings takes several minutes to complete.
8. Click Next.
The settings are populated, and the selected server’s name, the iDRAC IP address, and service tag are displayed in the reference
server window.
The profile is saved and displayed in the Hardware Profiles window under Available Profiles.
Managing hardware profiles
The hardware profiles define hardware configuration of a server by using a reference server. From OpenManage Integration for VMware
vCenter, there are several management actions that you can perform on existing hardware profiles, including:
• Viewing or editing hardware profile
• Deleting hardware profile
Viewing or editing hardware profile
1. In OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter, on the Manage > Deployment tab, select Deployment Templates > Hardware
Profiles.
The hardware profiles are displayed.
2. To edit a profile, select a profile, and click
.
3. In the Hardware Profile wizard, to configure with different values, click Edit.
4. To apply changes, click Save, or to cancel changes, click Cancel.
Deleting hardware profile
NOTE: Deleting a hardware profile that is part of a running deployment task might cause the deletion task to fail.
1. In OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter, on the Manage > Deployment tab, select Deployment Templates Hardware
Profiles.
2. Select a profile, and click .
3. To remove the profile, in the confirmation dialog box, click Yes, or to cancel, click No.
Creating hypervisor profile
To deploy and configure ESXi to a server, create a hypervisor profile. A hypervisor profile requires the following information:
• A Dell customized ISO software media location on an NFS or CIFS share
• A vCenter instance that manages the deployed hosts, and an optional host profile
• The destination cluster or data center where the plug-in deploys servers in vCenter
1. In OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter, on the Manage > Deployment tab, select Deployment Templates > Hypervisor
Profiles.
2. In the Hypervisor Profiles page, click .
Deploying hypervisor
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