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44 What’s New for Dell OpenManage IT Assistant Version 8.9
IT Assistant does not use VMware APIs for host or guest discovery or
correlation. IT Assistant supports discovery of VMware host only with SNMP.
On discovering a VMware host IT Assistant creates a custom group with the
string Host_<hostname (IP, DNS name and so on)>.
IT Assistant supports discovery of a Windows guest with both SNMP and
CIM and Linux guests can be discovered only with SNMP.
On discovering a guest IT Assistant lists the guests under the
Host_<hostname> group only when the host is also discovered in
IT Assistant. The discovered guest has a briefcase icon. There is also an
additional entry of the guest under the Unknown group. IT Assistant lists the
guest only under Unknown group if the host is not discovered in IT Assistant
or if the guest does not respond to the discovery protocol.
Microsoft Hyper-V
Server 2008 and
Windows Server
2008 with Hyper-V
role
Grouping of host and guests on
the Devices tree and display of
host-guest association
information, performance and
power monitoring, alerting,
application launch, tasks, software
updates, and inventory, automatic
update of the host configuration
if a virtual machine migrates from
one host to another.
Canned report for guests running
on Windows Server 2008 with
Hyper-V role are similar to
VMware ESX Server. For more
information, see the IT Assistant
Online Help.
Not Applicable
Citrix XenServer Performance and power
monitoring, alerting, application
launch, tasks, software updates,
and inventory
Grouping of host and guests
on the Devices tree and
display of host-guest
association information.
Table 3-1. IT Assistant Support for Virtualization
(continued)
Virtualization
Environment
IT Assistant Features Supported IT Assistant Features Not
Supported