Users Guide

To receive periodic notification about the availability of latest version (RPM, OVF, RPM/OVF) of OMIVV, perform the following
steps to configure the latest version notification:
1. On the OMIVV home page, click Settings > Appliance Settings > Notifications > Latest Version Notification.
2. Select the Enable Latest Version Notification (Recommended) check box.
3. To receive the latest appliance version notification, select the day and time.
4. Click APPLY.
Configure deployment credentials
OMIVV acts as a provisioning server. The deployment credentials enable you to communicate with iDRAC that uses the OMIVV
plugin as a provisioning server in the auto discovery process. The deployment credentials enable you to set up iDRAC credentials
to communicate securely with a bare-metal server that is discovered using auto discovery until the operating system
deployment is complete.
After the operating system deployment process is successfully complete, OMIVV changes the iDRAC credentials as provided in
the host credential profile. If you change the deployment credentials, all newly discovered systems using auto discovery are
provisioned with the new iDRAC credentials from that point onwards. However, the credentials on servers that are discovered
before the change of deployment credentials are not affected by this change.
1. On the OMIVV home page, click Settings > Appliance Settings > Deployment Credentials.
2. Enter the username and password. The default username is root and password is calvin.
Ensure that you enter the password based as per iDRAC user password policy set in iDRAC. Also, ensure to use iDRAC
supported characters.
3. Click APPLY.
Hardware component redundancy health—Proactive
HA
Proactive HA is a vCenter feature that works with OMIVV. When you enable Proactive HA, the feature safeguards your
workloads by proactively taking measures based on degradation of redundancy health of supported components in a host.
After assessing the redundancy health status of the supported host components, the OMIVV appliance updates the health
status change to the vCenter server. The available states of redundancy health status for the supported components (power
supply, fans, and IDSDM) are:
● Healthy (Information)—component operating normally
● Warning (Moderately degraded)—component has a noncritical error. The moderately degraded states are represented as
Warning in the Type column on the Events page.
● Critical (Severely degraded)—component has a critical failure.
NOTE:
An Unknown health status denotes the unavailability of any Proactive HA health update from the Dell Inc provider.
An unknown health status might occur when:
● All hosts that are added to a Proactive HA cluster may remain in the unknown state for a few minutes until OMIVV
initializes them with their appropriate states.
● A vCenter server restart may put the hosts in a Proactive HA cluster into an unknown state until OMIVV initializes them
with their appropriate states again.
When OMIVV detects a change in the redundancy health status of supported components (either through Traps or polling), the
health update notification for the component is sent to the vCenter server. Polling runs every hour, and it is available as a fail-
safe mechanism to cover the possibility of a Trap loss.
NOTE:
● When configuring events, it is recommended that you select Post all Events option as event posting level. For more
information about configuring events, see Configure events and alarms on page 92.
● Proactive HA is available only on the platforms that support redundancy on power, fan, and IDSDM.
● Proactive HA feature is not supported for PSUs for which redundancy cannot be configured (for example, cabled PSUs).
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