Users Guide

8 Overview
* - Not supported in the 6.5 A02 release.
Server Administrator
Server Administrator provides a comprehensive set of integrated
management services designed for system administrators to manage systems
locally and remotely on a network. Server Administrator is the sole
installation on the managed system and is accessible remotely from the Server
Administrator home page. Remotely monitored systems are accessed by dial-
in, LAN, or wireless connections. Server Administrator ensures the security of
its management connections through role-based access control (RBAC),
authentication, and industry-standard secure socket layer (SSL) encryption.
The Storage Management Service provides enhanced features for managing
locally-attached Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) and non-
RAID disk storage on a system.
Dell Update Packages (DUPs) No
Server Update Utility (SUU) No
Dell IT Assistant (ITA) Yes
Dell Remote Access Controller (DRAC)
and integrated DRAC (iDRAC)
DRAC and iDRAC are independent of
the operating system and supported in
ESXi.
Intelligent Platform Management
Interface (IPMI) Baseboard Management
Controller (BMC)
ESXi does not support any consoles,
IPMI tools cannot be executed from
ESXi.
However, IPMI commands can be
executed remotely using DRAC or
iDRAC.
Dell Management Console (DMC) Yes
Dell Lifecycle Controller USC/USC-LCE is independent of the
operating system and supported in ESXi.
Deployment Toolkit Yes
Dell OpenManage Essentials Yes
Table 1-1. Supported Dell OpenManage Components
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Dell OpenManage Component ESXi
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