White Papers

6 Deploying and configuring OMIVV in a dual-NIC environment
1 Introduction
The OMIVV is designed to streamline the management processes in data center environment by allowing you
to use VMware vCenter server to manage full server infrastructure—both physical and virtual. From
monitoring system level information, showing system alerts for action in vCenter, updating firmware for an
ESXi or vSAN cluster without impacting the workload to bare-metal deployment, the OMIVV will expand and
enrich VMware management experience with Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.
Earlier with the single-NIC configuration in OMIVV, vSphere (vCenter and ESXi) and iDRAC were supposed
to be in the same network or to be routed without isolation.
Starting from version 5.0, OMIVV supports two isolated networks.
1.1 Audience
This technical white paper is intended for server administrators and network administrators for managing
VMware virtualization solutions in their data centers running on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and using
OMIVV for systems management requirements.
1.2 Applicable scenario to configure dual-NIC
In data center environment, if the in-band management network and out-of-band management networks have
route to communicate with each other, you should continue to have single network interface to OMIVV. The
scenarios that is explained in the subsequent section are applicable if the in-band management network and
out-of-band management networks cannot communicate to each other.
Figure 1 describes a typical scenario where out-of-band management network is isolated and does not have
route to the in-band management network. In this case, OMIVV is configured with two network interfaces, and
has connectivity with both the networks.
Figure 1: Isolated out-of-band management network