Users Guide

Manage bare-metal servers
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 operating system
deployment.
○ Quarantined—The servers cannot perform tasks such as operating system 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.
● To view more information about the compliance issue, click DETAILS in the lower horizontal pane.
You can also perform the following tasks on the Bare-metal Servers page:
● Manual discovery of bare-metal servers
● Remove bare-metal servers
● System Profile and ISO Profile deployment
● Refresh bare-metal servers
● Purchase or renew iDRAC license
Device discovery
Discovery is the process of adding supported bare-metal server. After a server is discovered, you can use it for system profile
and iso profile deployment. For more information about the list of supported servers, see OpenManage Integration for VMware
vCenter Compatibility Matrix.
Prerequisites:
● The network connectivity from the bare-metal server’s iDRAC to the OMIVV virtual machine is required.
● The hosts with existing operating system should not be discovered into OMIVV, instead they should be added to the
vCenter. Add them to a host credential profile.
● To deploy operating system on SD card and to use system profile features in 12G and 13G PowerEdge servers, ensure that
iDRAC 2.50.50.50 and later is installed.
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