Owner's Manual

36 What’s New for Dell OpenManage IT Assistant Version 8.6?
Enhanced Software Update MD Array Discovery
Starting with IT Assistant 8.5, you no longer need to upgrade IT Assistant to
support new MD arrays.
Support for VMware
®
ESX 4.0
Starting with IT Assistant 8.5, you can also manage VMware ESX 4.0 hosts.
However, on an unconfigured operating system installation, IT Assistant
categorizes the ESX 4.0 hosts under the Unknown group. To enable
categorization of ESX 4.0 hosts under the Servers and VMware ESX Servers
group, you should apply some configuration changes on each host. See
"Setting Up SNMP on VMware ESX Server 4.0 and Later For Discovery" for
more information about the required SNMP settings.
IT Assistant Virtualization Support
IT Assistant can be used to manage new virtualization environments
including VMware
®
ESX Server 3.5 and later, VMware
®
ESXi 3.5 Update 4
and later, Microsoft
®
Hyper-V™ Server
®
2008, Windows Server 2008 with
Hyper-V role, and Citrix
®
XenServer 5.0–5.5.