Users Guide

Deployment

To deploy system profile and ISO profile, ensure that the servers are displayed in the Deployment Wizard and all the servers are

as per the following requirements:

● Meet specific hardware support information mentioned in the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Compatibility

Matrix.

● Meet minimum supported versions of the iDRAC firmware and BIOS. See the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter

Compatibility Matrix for specific firmware support information.

● Meet the storage specifications of IDSDM. To know about the storage specifications of IDSDM, see the VMware

Documentation. Ensure that you enable the IDSDM from BIOS before you deploy an OS with OMIVV. OMIVV enables

deployment on IDSDM, or local hard drives, or BOSS card.

● Ensure that there is a route between the vCenter, OMIVV, and the iDRAC networks, if vCenter, OMIVV, and iDRAC are

connected to different networks. This is applicable only If the OMIVV appliance is not configured with two network adapters.

● Ensure that Collect System Inventory on Reboot (CSIOR) is enabled. Before initiating auto/manual discovery, ensure that

retrieved data is current by performing a hard reboot on the server.

● For auto discovery of bare-metal servers either order the Dell EMC servers with auto discovery or handshake options that

are preconfigured by the factory. If a server is not preconfigured with these options, manually enter the OMIVV IP address

or configure your local network to provide this information.

● Ensure that the following conditions are met before deploying an OS if OMIVV is not used for hardware configuration:

○ Enable the Virtualization Technology (VT) flag in BIOS.

○ The virtual driver, IDSDM, and BOSS are set to first boot disk.

● Verify that the BIOS setting for VT is automatically enabled even if the BIOS configuration is not part of the system profile, if

OMIVV is used for hardware configuration. If a virtual drive is not configured on the target system, the Express or Clone

RAID configuration is required.

● Ensure that the custom ESXi images that contain all the Dell EMC drivers are available for deployment. You can find the

correct images from dell.com/support by going to the Drivers & Downloads page, and saving the custom images to a

CIFS or NFS share location that OMIVV can access during the deployment process. For up-to-date list of supported ESXi

versions for this release, see OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Compatibility Matrix. To download the custom

Dell EMC ISO images, see Download custom Dell EMC ISO images on page 65.

View bare-metal servers

On the Bare-metal Servers page, you can:

● View the bare-metal servers discovered using auto discovery and manual discovery.

The information such as Service Tag, Model name, iDRAC IP, Server Status, System Lockdown Mode, Compliance

Status, and iDRAC License Status are displayed.

The following are the different states of the bare-metal servers:

○ Unconfigured—The server is added to OMIVV and waiting to be configured.

○ Configured—The server is configured with all hardware information that is required for a successful OS deployment.

○ Quarantined—The servers cannot perform tasks such as OS deployment and firmware update because the servers are

excluded from any OMIVV actions.

● View the compliance status of the bare-metal servers.

A bare-metal server is non-compliant if:

○ It is not a supported server.

○ It does not have a supported iDRAC license (iDRAC Express is the minimum requirement).

○ It does not have supported versions of iDRAC, BIOS, or LC installed.

○ LOM or NIC is not present.

○ System Lockdown Mode is turned on.

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