Users Guide

Viewing storage details for data center and clusters................................................................................................66
Viewing additional hardware details for data center and clusters...........................................................................67
Setting up physical server blink indicator light.................................................................................................................69
Configuring System Lockdown Mode.............................................................................................................................. 69
10 Events, alarms, and health monitoring........................................................................................ 70
About events and alarms for hosts................................................................................................................................... 70
About events and alarms for chassis................................................................................................................................. 71
Viewing chassis events.................................................................................................................................................. 71
Viewing chassis alarms...................................................................................................................................................71
Virtualization-related events............................................................................................................................................... 71
Proactive HA events........................................................................................................................................................... 78
Viewing alarms and events setting....................................................................................................................................79
Viewing events.................................................................................................................................................................... 80
Hardware component redundancy health—Proactive HA............................................................................................80
Configuring Proactive HA for Rack and Tower servers .......................................................................................... 80
Enabling Proactive HA on clusters...............................................................................................................................81
Overriding severity of health update notification...................................................................................................... 82
Launching management consoles..................................................................................................................................... 82
Launching Remote Access console.............................................................................................................................82
Launching OMSA console............................................................................................................................................ 83
Launching the Chassis Management Controller console......................................................................................... 83
11 About firmware updates.............................................................................................................84
Running firmware update for non-vSAN host.................................................................................................................84
Running firmware update wizard for vSAN host............................................................................................................ 86
Running firmware update wizard for non-vSAN clusters.............................................................................................. 88
Running firmware update wizard for vSAN clusters...................................................................................................... 89
12 Chassis management.................................................................................................................92
Viewing chassis summary details.......................................................................................................................................92
Viewing hardware inventory information for chassis......................................................................................................93
Viewing additional hardware configuration for chassis.................................................................................................. 95
Viewing associated host for chassis................................................................................................................................. 96
13 Deploying hypervisor................................................................................................................. 97
Device discovery..................................................................................................................................................................98
Manual discovery...........................................................................................................................................................98
Auto discovery in OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter......................................................................... 98
Removing bare-metal server.......................................................................................................................................101
Provisioning......................................................................................................................................................................... 101
System profiles...................................................................................................................................................................102
Creating system profile............................................................................................................................................... 102
Managing System profiles.................................................................................................................................................104
Configuring hardware profile............................................................................................................................................104
Enabling CSIOR on reference server.........................................................................................................................105
Creating or customizing hardware profile ................................................................................................................105
Creating or cloning hardware profile..........................................................................................................................107
Managing hardware profiles........................................................................................................................................107
Contents
5