Users Guide

Introduction to OMIMSSC

OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center (OMIMSSC) provides integration into System Center suite of products. OMIMSSC

enables full lifecycle management of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers by using integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with

Lifecycle Controller (LC), and of Modular Systems (Dell EMC PowerEdge MX7000) by using OpenManage Enterprise Modular Edition.

OMIMSSC oers operating system deployment, Storage Spaces Direct cluster creation, hardware patching, rmware update, and device

maintenance. Integrate OMIMSSC with Microsoft System Center Conguration Manager (SCCM) for managing devices in traditional data

center, or integrate OMIMSSC with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) for managing devices in virtual and

cloud environments.

For information about SCCM and SCVMM, see the Microsoft documentation.

OMIMSSC features

Tableau 1. Features for this release

Feature Description

Discover and maintain Modular Systems

Discover, congure, and update rmware of Dell EMC PowerEdge

MX7000 Modular Systems by using Operational Templates.

Create Storage Spaces Direct clusters on System Center 2016

Virtual Machine Manager

Create hyper-v clusters with predened Operational Templates and

Storage Spaces Direct feature enabled on Dell EMC Storage

Spaces Direct Ready Nodes (built on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers

that have been precongured, tested, and certied to run Microsoft

Storage Spaces Direct) from Microsoft System Center Virtual

Machine Manager 2016.

Predened Operational Templates

Predened Operational Templates contains Dell EMC congurations

for creating Storage Spaces Direct clusters and parameters specic

to NIC card vendors.

Conguration compliance report for Modular Systems

Hardware conguration compliance check for Modular Systems

against Operational Template with comparison reports.

UEFI mode

Supports operating system deployment by using UEFI boot mode.

Boot Optimized Storage Solution (BOSS) conguration

Supports BOSS card conguration.

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