Users Guide

5. Click Register.
NOTE: For all vCenter operations, OMIVV uses the privileges of the registered user and not the privileges of the logged-in
user.
For example: Suppose, a user X with the necessary privileges registers OMIVV with vCenter and user Y has only Dell privileges.
The user Y can now log in to the vCenter and can trigger a firmware update task from OMIVV. While performing the firmware
update task, OMIVV uses the privileges of user X to put the host into maintenance mode or reboot the host.
OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Requirements
The OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter (OMIVV) requires information from OpenManage on older generation
servers, and more current platforms are restricted to start at the version of vSphere that understands the newer chipset.
Due to this, there are limits on the version of vSphere that a given version of OMIVV works with.
Table 4. Supported ESXi versions on managed hosts
ESXi version support Server generation
11G 12G 13G
v5.0
Y Y N
v5.0 U1
Y Y N
v5.0 U2
Y Y N
v5.0 U3
Y Y N
v5.1
Y Y N
v5.1 U1
Y Y N
v5.1 U2
Y Y Y
v5.1 U3
N Y Y
(except M830, FC830, and
FC430)
v5.5
Y Y N
v5.5 U1
Y Y N
v5.5 U2
Y Y Y
v5.5 U3
Y Y Y
v6.0
Y Y Y
v6.0 U1
Y Y Y
Table 5. Supported vCenter Server versions for release 3.1
vCenter version Desktop client support Web client support
v5.1 U2
Y N
v5.1 U3
Y N
v5.5 U1
Y Y
v5.5 U2
Y Y
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