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Table Of Contents
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Bare-metal discovery
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- 3 Create an ISO Profile
- 4 Best practices for OS deployment
- 4.1 Customized ISO images
- 4.2 Lifecycle Controller busy
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- 4.3 Disconnected network interfaces
- 4.4 First boot disk selection
- 4.5 Correct boot sequence
- 4.6 Boot sequence enablement
- 4.7 Virtual Disk should be created for controller (PERC or BOSS)
- 4.8 In Multi-NIC environment, selection of right OMIVV network selection is important
- 4.9 OMIVV does not support software controller
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- 4.10 Ensure while providing static network details, valid network details are entered
- 4.11 Minimum requirements for ESXi installation
- 4.12 vCenter license for adding host to vCenter after deployment
- 4.13 OMIVV does not support installation of ESXi on virtual machine
- 4.14 Ensure that OMIVV license for host is available
- 4.15 ESXi password requirements
- 4.16 Port information for ESXi installation
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- 4.17 ESXi deployment failure
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- 4.18 When NPAR is enabled on target node and disabled in System Profile, ESXi deployment fails
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- 4.19 Sometimes MAC address is populated during ESXi deployment
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- 4.20 After ESXi deployment, OMIVV fails to add ESXi host to vCenter or failed to add host profile or enter maintenance mode is failed for host
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- 4.21 After performing ESXi deployment, host is either disconnected or not responding state
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- 4.22 Deployment job times out when network interface card (NIC) of OMIVV is not connected to the ESXi host network
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- 4.23 General failure
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- 4.24 Inaccessible network shares (OSD47, OSD17)
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- 4.25 Auto discovered systems are displayed without model information in Deployment wizard
- 4.26 Server pending reboot
- 4.27 Boot order is not guaranteed in UEFI mode
- 4.28 Host credential profile having AD credentials are not listed in deployment page
- 4.29 Even though ESXi deployment is successful, inventory fails when selected ISO profile has ESXi 6.5 (or earlier version) image and host credential profile have different or no ESXi password other than which is set in deployment wizard
- 4.30 After performing an ESXi deployment, existing iDRAC jobs are not in seen
- 4.31 After performing upgrade to latest version, scheduled ESXi deployment job fails
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- 4.32 Discovered user used during bare-metal discovery is disabled after performing ESXi deployment
- 4.33 ESXi deployment is blocked when secure boot is enabled
- 4.34 Deployment fails when other OS (RHEL or WINDOWS) is previously installed
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16 ESXi deployment using Dell EMC OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter (OMIVV) and deployment best
practices
Figure 10: Installation targets with options
3.3 Select Host Credential Profile
From OMIVV 5.2 onwards, selection of Host Credential Profile (HCP) and providing root password is
mandatory as same is used during setting ESXi password.
The following are applicable for root user during deployment:
• If an ISO profile has ESXi 6.5 and earlier version, the password that is entered in selected host
credential profile is used.
• For ESXi 6.7 and later version, the password that is entered in the deployment wizard is used.
• For ESXi 6.5 and earlier version, if password is not entered in host credential profile, the password
that is entered in deployment wizard is used. Update the ESXi credentials at host credential profile to
ensure that inventory is run successfully after ESXi deployment.
OMIVV provides two options while selecting the host credential profile. Only one host credential profile can be
used for all selected bare-metal servers or different host credential profiles can be used for all selected bare-
metal servers. Select an appropriate option and enter root password. Entering root password is mandatory.
Note: Confirmation password (Verify Password) is not available, if different host credential profiles are used
for all selected bare metal servers. In this case, ensuring valid password is entered is important.