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 5.1 provides the following features:

• Support for vSphere 7.0

• Support for firmware management using vSphere Lifecycle Manager

• Support fro XR2 and R7525 PowerEdge servers

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, 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.

You can also use OMIVV with vSphere Lifecycle Manager to

perform firmware update (applicable for vCenter 7.0 and later).

Drift detection for clusters

• Firmware compliance for clusters

• Driver compliance for vSAN clusters

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