Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Version 5.1 User's Guide
- Introduction
- About Administration Console
- Register new vCenter server
- Register vCenter server using a non-administrative account
- Required privileges for non-administrator users
- Assign Dell privileges to existing role
- Update SSL certificates for registered vCenter servers
- Modify vCenter login credentials
- Unregister OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter
- Upload license to OMIVV Administration Console
- Manage the OMIVV appliance
- Access the appliance management
- Restart OMIVV appliance
- Update OMIVV appliance and repository location
- OMIVV upgrade options
- Upgrade OMIVV appliance using RPM
- Upgrade OMIVV appliance using backup and restore
- Manage backup and restore
- Generate and download the troubleshooting bundle
- Set up HTTP proxy
- Set up Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers
- Configure deployment mode
- Extended monitoring
- Generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
- Upload HTTPS certificate
- Restore default HTTPS certificate
- Set up global alerts
- About OMIVV VM console
- Open OMIVV VM console
- Configure OMIVV appliance
- Configure OMIVV appliance with two Network Interface Controllers (NICs)
- Change OMIVV appliance password
- Configure Network Time Protocol (NTP) and set local time zone
- Change hostname of OMIVV appliance
- Reboot OMIVV appliance
- Reset OMIVV appliance to factory settings
- Read-only user role
- Register new vCenter server
- Monitor hosts and chassis using dashboard
- Manage hosts using host credential profile
- Manage chassis using chassis credential profile
- Manage firmware and driver repositories using repository profile
- Capture baseline configuration using cluster profile
- Deployment
- View bare-metal servers
- Device discovery
- Auto discovery
- Enable or disable administrative accounts in iDRAC
- Manually configure PowerEdge servers for auto discovery
- Manual discovery of bare-metal servers
- Remove bare-metal servers
- Refresh bare-metal servers
- Purchase or renew iDRAC license
- Deployment
- System profile
- Create system profile
- Edit system profile
- View system profile
- Delete system profile
- ISO profile
- Create an ISO profile
- Edit an ISO profile
- View an ISO profile
- Delete an ISO profile
- Download custom Dell EMC ISO images
- Compliance
- Manage jobs
- Manage logs
- Manage OMIVV appliance settings
- Manage vCenter settings
- Chassis Management
- View Dell EMC chassis information
- View chassis inventory information
- Viewing hardware inventory information for chassis
- View firmware inventory information
- View management controller information
- View storage inventory information
- View warranty information
- View related host for chassis
- View related chassis information
- Manage PowerEdge MX chassis
- MX chassis firmware update
- Host Management
- View OMIVV hosts
- Monitor single host
- Firmware update
- vSphere Lifecycle Manager overview
- Using OMIVV as a firmware add-on provider in vSphere Lifecycle Manager—User Interface
- Using OMIVV as a firmware add-on provider in vSphere Lifecycle Manager—vSphere Automation APIs
- Set up blink indicator light
- Configure System Lockdown Mode
- Security roles and permissions
- Frequently Asked Questions-FAQ
- Frequently Asked Questions-FAQ
- iDRAC license type and description are displayed incorrectly for non-compliant vSphere hosts
- Dell provider is not displayed as health update provider
- Host inventory or test connection fails due to invalid or unknown iDRAC IP.
- On running fix noncompliant vSphere hosts wizard, the status of a specific host is displayed as Unknown
- Dell privileges that are assigned while registering the OMIVV appliance are not removed after unregistering OMIVV
- How do I resolve error code 2000000 caused by VMware Certificate Authority-VMCA
- In Administration Console, Update Repository Path is not set to default path after I reset appliance to factory settings
- What should I do when a web communication error in the vCenter HTML-5 Client opens after changing the DNS settings in OMIVV
- Installation date be displays as 12-31-1969 for some of the firmware on the firmware page
- I am not seeing OpenManage Integration icon in HTML-5 Client even if registration of plug-in to vCenter was successful
- Why is DNS configuration settings restored to original settings after appliance reboot if appliance IP and DNS settings are overwritten with DHCP values
- Running firmware update may display an error message, The firmware repository file does not exist or is invalid.
- Using OMIVV to update the Intel network card with firmware version of 13.5.2 is not supported
- Using OMIVV to update Intel network card from 14.5 or 15.0 to 16.x fails due to staging requirement from DUP
- Why does Administration Portal display unreachable update repository location
- Why did system not enter maintenance mode when I performed one-to-many firmware update
- Chassis global health still healthy when some of power supply status has changed to critical
- Processor version is displayed as “Not Applicable” in processor view in system overview page
- Does OMIVV support vCenter in linked mode
- What are required port settings for OMIVV
- Password is not changed for user used for bare-metal discovery after successfully applying system profile that has same user with new changed credentials in iDRAC user list
- Unable to view new iDRAC version details listed on vCenter hosts and clusters page
- Can OMIVV support ESXi with lockdown mode enabled
- When I tried to use lockdown mode, it fails
- Attempting to deploy ESXi on server fails
- Auto discovered systems are displayed without model information in Deployment wizard
- NFS share is set up with ESXi ISO, but deployment fails with errors mounting share location
- How do I force remove OMIVV appliance from vCenter
- Entering a Password in the Backup Now Screen Receives an Error Message
- What should I do as firmware update failed
- What should I do as vCenter registration failed
- Performance during host credential profile test credentials is slow or unresponsive
- Does OMIVV support VMware vCenter server appliance
- A server may show as non-compliant with CSIOR status, "Unknown"
- Firmware level not updated when I have performed firmware update with Apply on Next reboot option and system was rebooted
- Host still displayed under chassis even after removing host from vCenter tree
- After backup and restore of OMIVV, alarm settings are not restored
- OS deployment fails when NPAR is enabled on a target node and disabled in System Profile
- Available OMIVV appliance version displays wrong information when the available version is lesser than the current version
- The 267027 exception is thrown while adding a 12G and later bare-metal server
- During deployment, system profile apply fails due to iDRAC error
- OMIVV RPM upgrade fails when proxy is configured with domain user authentication
- Unable to apply System Profile that has PCIe card in the FX chassis
- Drift Detection shows noncompliant for Modular servers that has PCIe card in the FX chassis
- Unable to deploy an OS on PowerEdge serves when the iDRAC does not populate the MAC address of the selected NIC
- When creating a host credential profile for the host having ESXi 6.5U1, the Service Tag of the host is not displayed on the Select Hosts page
- Dell EMC icon is not displayed after backup and restore from an earlier OMIVV version to a later OMIVV version
- When upgrading or downgrading some iDRAC firmware versions using OMIVV, even when the firmware update is successful, OMIVV may indicate that the job is failed.
- Configuring the System Lockdown mode at a cluster level sometimes displays a message "No hosts under the cluster has successful inventory"
- Sometimes post RPM upgrade of OMIVV appliance, multiple entries in the logs are seen in vCenter Recent Tasks
- After registration of vCenter, the Dell EMC logo of OMIVV is not displayed on the home page of VMware
- Non-compliant 11G PowerEdge servers are retained in OMIVV inventory after backup and restore
- Unable to launch vCenter from flex client after upgrading the OMIVV appliance
- When adding or removing network adapters to OMIVV, the existing NICs disappear from the OMIVV console
- After adding or removing the second NIC, the Network Configuration page shows three NICs
- A server with Unknown status in the earlier version is not listed on the Bare-metal Servers page after backing up and restoring to a latest OMIVV version
- After OS deployment, OMIVV failed to add ESXi host to vCenter or failed to add Host Profile or Enter Maintenance Mode is failed for host
- iDRAC license status is displayed as compliant on the management compliance page when the iDRAC IP is not reachable
- ESXi host is either disconnected or not responding state after successful OS deployment using OMIVV.
- Deployment job times out when network interface card (NIC) of OMIVV is not connected to the ESXi host network
- Warranty job is not running for certain hosts
- Proactive HA initialization is not happening after performing backup and restore
- OMIVV page displays invalid session, or time out exception, or two million errors in Firefox browser
- In vCenter, recent tasks pane does not show the details column for some OMIVV task notifications
- When using vCenter 6.5 U2, 2000002 error might be displayed in all the pages of OMIVV
- The 2000002 error is displayed in all the pages of OMIVV after performing RPM upgrade or backup and restore from an earlier OMIVV version to a later OMIVV version
- Sometimes, OMIVV takes long time to complete vCenter un-registration
- Bare-metal deployment issues
- Frequently Asked Questions-FAQ
- System specific attributes
- Additional information
- Customization attributes
- Component vs. baseline version comparison matrix
- Response codes
Option Description
2 If a tick mark is displayed against OVF, you can take a backup of the OMIVV database from the existing version,
and restore it in the latest available appliance version. See Upgrade OMIVV appliance using backup and restore on
page 18.
3 If a tick mark is displayed against both RPM and OVF, you can perform either of the mentioned options to upgrade
your appliance. In this scenario, the recommended option is RPM upgrade.
2. To update the OMIVV appliance, perform the mentioned tasks for the upgrade mechanisms as applicable from the version of
OMIVV.
OMIVV upgrade options
Backup and restore
You can perform backup and restore from OMIVV 4.3 and later to the latest version (with vCenter 6.5 and later).
RPM upgrade
You can perform RPM upgrade from OMIVV 5.0 and later to the latest version.
Upgrade OMIVV appliance using RPM
Ensure that you are upgrading to a version of the appliance that is greater than the current one.
1. On the APPLIANCE MANAGEMENT page, based on your network settings, enable proxy and enter proxy setting data, if
necessary. See Setting up HTTP proxy .
For the available OMIVV appliance version, the applicable RPM and OVF OMIVV appliance upgrade mechanisms are displayed
with a tick mark [
].
2. To upgrade the OMIVV plug-in from an existing version to the available version, perform one of the following steps:
● To upgrade using RPM that is available in Update Repository Path, ensure that Update Repository Path is set to the
path: https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/vcenter-plugin-x64/latest/
If the path is different, in the Appliance Management window, in the APPLIANCE UPDATE area, click Edit to update
the path to https://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/vcenter-plugin-x64/latest/ in the Update Repository Path text box,
and click Apply.
3. Compare the available OMIVV appliance version and current OMIVV appliance version.
4. To apply the update to the OMIVV appliance, under Appliance Settings, click Update Virtual Appliance.
5. In the UPDATE APPLIANCE dialog box, click Update.
After you click Update, you are logged out from the ADMINISTRATION CONSOLE window.
6. Close the web browser.
Once the appliance is RPM upgraded, ensure that you clear the browser cache before logging in to the Dell admin portal.
NOTE: During the upgrade process, the appliance restarts once or twice.
NOTE: After the RPM upgrade is complete, you can view the login screen in the OMIVV console. Open a browser, enter
the https:\\<ApplianceIP|hostname> link, and go to the APPLIANCE UPDATE area. You can verify that the available and
current OMIVV appliance versions are same. If you have enabled Proactive HA on clusters, OMIVV unregisters the Dell Inc
provider for those clusters and re-registers the Dell Inc provider after upgrade. Health updates for the Dell EMC hosts are
not available until upgrade is complete.
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