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 reduce the complexity of managing your data center by

streamlining the tasks associated with the management and monitoring of Dell EMC server infrastructure in the vSphere

environment.

Whats new in this release

This release of OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter provides the following features:

● Support for HTML-5 Client

● Support for PowerEdge R6515 and PowerEdge R7515 servers

● Enhancement in the system profile to support the following:

○ System profile types—Basic and Advanced

○ System profile edit

○ 12G and 13G PowerEdge servers

● Added support for vSphere 6.7 U3, vSphere 6.7 U2, and vSphere 6.5 U3

● Enhancement in the deployment to support the following:

○ System profile baselining based on the associated cluster profile for cluster

○ System Profile Configuration Preview

● Enhancement in the configuration compliance:

○ Support for firmware and hardware baselining for vSphere clusters

○ Cluster level view of drift details with vCenter context

● Support for context-sensitive help

● Enhancement in the repository profile to support online repositories—Dell EMC Default Catalog and Validated MX Stack

Catalog

● Support for MX chassis management module firmware update

● Enhancement in admin console to support reset backup settings

● Enhancement in deployment mode to support for 2000 hosts with extra large mode

● Support for dual network adapter for OMIVV

● Dashboard to monitor host and chassis

Important notes

The following are the important items to note before upgrading to OMIVV 5.0:

1. From OMIVV 5.0 onwards, only VMware vSphere Client (HTML-5) is supported and the vSphere Web Client (FLEX) is not

supported.

2. 11G servers are not supported. Only the 12G and later generations servers are retained after restore.

3. Hardware profiles and deployment templates are not supported. System profiles now have two types, where Basic is

intended to replace the same settings that were captured in the Hardware Profile. For deployment, the deployment process

asks what system profiles (configuration) and ISO repository (hypervisor image) you want to use for the deployment.

OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter

features

Following are the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter (OMIVV) appliance features:

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