Install Guide

● Inventory/Monitoring—Provides information about overall Health, Hardware inventory, and iDRAC inventory of nodes
including component-level information of all supported Dell EMC platforms.
● iDRAC console—View iDRAC information of PowerEdge servers. For out-of-band management, you can directly launch the
iDRAC console from Windows Admin Center.
● Cluster creation (Integrated Cluster Deploy and Update)—Supports integrated Firmware, BIOS, and Drivers installation while
creating Azure Stack HCI cluster. Also, performs HCI configuration profile check to keep hardware configuration of cluster
nodes inline with Dell EMC recommended hardware configuration.
● Update management—
○ Online catalogs—Support for creating firmware baselines by using the following online catalogs when OMIMSWAC is
connected to the Internet:
￭ Dell EMC Enterprise Catalog-Contains firmware updates for PowerEdge servers and PowerEdge server nodes in a
cluster.
￭ Update Catalog for Microsoft HCI solutions-Contains firmware updates for AX nodes and Storage Spaces Direct
Ready Nodes and nodes in Windows Server HCI and Azure Stack HCI clusters.
￭ Dell EMC MX Solution Catalog for PowerEdge MX Modular.
○ Offline catalog—Support for creating local firmware baselines by using Dell EMC Repository Manager (DRM).
○ Compliance report—Generate update compliance report against Dell EMC verified update catalogs and provide
notifications when a new catalog version is available.
○ Server update—Supports PowerEdge server update against baseline – Firmware, BIOS, Drivers, and system
management applications.
○ Cluster-Aware Update—Supports cluster update against validated baseline (Firmware, BIOS, and Drivers) for PowerEdge
server-based Failover cluster, Dell EMC HCI Solutions for Microsoft Windows Server, and Dell EMC Integrated System
for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI.
○ Full Stack Cluster-Aware Updating—Supports integrated cluster-aware update for Azure Stack HCI clusters that include
both operating system and hardware updates (Firmware, BIOS, and Drivers).
● Dell EMC Solutions badge—
○ Displays Dell EMC Solutions badge Azure Stack HCI Certified for Dell EMC Integrated System for Microsoft Azure
Stack HCI consisting of AX nodes from Dell Technologies.
○ Displays Dell EMC Solutions badge Windows Server HCI Certified for Dell EMC HCI Solutions for Microsoft Windows
Server created using Storage Spaces Direct Ready Nodes or combinations of AX nodes and Storage Spaces Direct Ready
Nodes.
● Availability of OMIMSWAC extension and documentation localized in English, French, German, Spanish, Simplified Chinese,
and Japanese languages.
Overview of OpenManage Integration with Microsoft Windows Admin Center
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