Users Guide

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, and RAC
● Warranty information at server, cluster, and data center
level
● Chassis details such as Chassis Management Controller
(CMC) or Management Module information, chassis power
supply, KVM status, fan or thermal details, warranty
information, switch, server, and storage details
● Support for an MX chassis relationship in the Multi-
Chassis Management (MCM) configuration.
● Fabric information for an MX chassis MCM configuration
● QuickSync hardware information for an MX chassis
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 a maintenance mode.
● Provide intelligence such as inventory, events, alarms to
diagnose server and chassis problems.
● Support for VMware Proactive HA feature.
Firmware updates
The cluster-aware server firmware update includes the
following:
● Update supported servers to the most recent version of
BIOS and firmware.
Drift detection for clusters
● Firmware compliance for clusters
● Driver compliance for vSAN clusters
● Hardware compliance
NOTE: Hardware compliance is not supported for
hosts that are managed using chassis credential
profile.
Driver updates Driver updates for vSAN clusters.
Deployment
Deployment includes the following:
● Create and deploy system profiles.
● Remotely deploy an operating system on the bare-metal
servers using VMware vCenter without using PXE.
Service Information Retrieve warranty information for the Dell EMC servers and
its associated chassis from warranty database of Dell and
enable for easy online warranty upgrading.
Security role and permissions
Security role and permissions include the following
functionalities:
● Integrate with standard vCenter authentication, rules, and
permissions.
● Support for iDRAC Lockdown Mode in 14th Gen servers.
Support for OEM server
The following OMIVV features are supported:
● Inventory
● Monitor and send alerts.
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