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:
• Whats new in this release
• OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter features
Whats new in this release
This release of OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter provides the following features:
• Existing Cluster Aware Update is enhanced to support vSAN clusters. It supports driver and firmware updates.
• Ability to baseline vSAN cluster for driver, firmware, and hardware configuration and drift detection
• Ability to include/exclude attributes for System profile
• Support for 14th generation platforms
• Support for SMB2 CIFS shares
• Support for OMSA 9.1
• Support for vSphere 6.7
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:
• 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.
• Support for VMware ProActive HA feature.
Firmware updates
The firmware update includes the following:
• Update Dell EMC hardware to the most recent version of BIOS
and firmware.
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