Owner's Manual

36 What’s New for Dell OpenManage IT Assistant Version 8.9
Express Service Code
In addition to the Express Service Code for PowerEdge servers; IT Assistant
displays Chassis Express Service code and Chassis Service Tag for PowerEdge
Blade servers running OpenManage Server Administrator version 6.5 or later.
You can also see Enclosure specific Express service code in the Details tab.
Deprecated Features
The following features are not supported in IT Assistant:
• Topology view
• Volume Information Report—As IT Assistant does not support Volume
Info Report in version 8.9, this will be removed if you upgrade from
previous version to IT Assistant 8.9.
Features From Previous Releases
The following features were introduced in previous versions of IT Assistant:
IT Assistant 8.8
New Operating Systems Support
You can install IT Assistant management station on these 64-bit operating
systems:
• Microsoft Windows 7
• Microsoft Windows 2008 R2
NOTE: Enable WOW64 for the preceding operating systems.
IT Assistant can discover and manage servers installed with these operating
systems. You must also install the required Dell OpenManage software from
the OpenManage product suite to discover and manage devices.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0
• VMware ESX 4.0 Update 2
• VMware ESXi 4.0 Update 2
• Windows Server 2008 HPC Edition Server R2
For more information on the virtualization support, see "IT Assistant
Virtualization Support
" on page 42 .