Users Guide

● Hardware: NICs
● Hardware: PCI Slots
● Hardware: Remote Access Card
● Storage: Physical Disks
● Storage: Virtual Disks
● Firmware
● Power Monitoring
● Warranty
To display the entire datacenter hardware configuration:
1. From the vSphere Client, under the Inventory heading select Hosts and Clusters.
2. In Hosts and Clusters, select a datacenter in the tree view and select the OpenManage Integration tab.
3. An overview of all hosts in the datacenter is displayed. Use the View drop-down list to view an inventory category.
4. Use the Filter text box to enter a filter for the inventory data.
5. To refresh the displayed inventory, click Refresh.
Managing Connection Profiles
Connection profiles associate access and deployment credentials with a set of host systems and typically contain:
● Profile name and unique description (to help with profile management)
● A list of hosts associated with the connection profile
● iDRAC credentials
● Host credentials
● Date Created
● Date Modified
● Last Modified User
After you run the Configuration Wizard, you manage credential profiles from the OpenManage Integration for VMware
vCenter Manage tab > Templates & Profiles using the following:
● Creating A Connection Profile
● Viewing And Editing An Existing Connection Profile
● Deleting A Connection Profile
● Testing A Connection Profile
● Refreshing A Connection Profile
Viewing Or Editing An Existing Connection Profile
After you have configured a connection profile, you can edit the profile name, description, associated hosts, and iDRAC and
OMSA Agent credentials.
To view or edit an existing connection profile:
1. From the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter, select Connection Profiles.
2. Under Available Profiles, select the profile to view or edit and then click Edit/View.
3. In the Profile Name and Description page, enter the Connection Profile Name and an optional Connection Profile
Description that are used to help manage custom connection profiles.
4. In the Associated Hosts page, select the hosts for the connection profile and click Next.
5. In the Credentials page, read the information and click Next.
6. In the iDRAC page, under Credentials, do one of the following:
NOTE:
The iDRAC account requires administrative privileges for updating firmware, applying hardware profiles, and
deploying hypervisor.
● For iDRACs already configured and enabled for Active Directory on which you want to use Active Directory, select the
Use Active Directory check box; otherwise skip down to configure the iDRAC credentials.
○ In the Active Directory User Name text box, type the user name. Type the username in one of these formats:
domain\username or domain/username or username@domain. The user name is limited to 256 characters. Refer to
Microsoft Active Directory documentation for user name restrictions.
End-To-End Hardware Management
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