Install Guide

4. Right-click New Datacenter, and click Add Host. Provide information for the ESXi server based on the online instructions.
5. Click Menu > Lifecycle Manager > Settings > Patch Setup > NEW, and enable the online repository.
6. Click ACTIONS > Sync Updates, and then OpenManage Server Administrator VIB is downloaded into VC.
7. Select the ESXi host. Click Baselines > Attached Baselines > ATTACH > Create > Attach Baseline, and follow the
online instructions to upload the patch successfully.
8. Click STAGE and follow the instructions.
9. After the staging is complete, click REMEDIATE and follow the instructions.
OpenManage Server Administrator installation is complete.
NOTE: Restart of the Host OS is not required after installing or uninstalling the Server Administrator VIB/Component
package.
NOTE: After an ESXi Server Administrator VIB/Component installation, the CIM services are restarted automatically to
load the Server Administrator providers (DCIM service). It is recommended to wait for 2 - 3 minutes before logging in
from any Server Administrator web server. Else, the Server Administrator web server login to the ESXi host may fail.
NOTE: With an installed ESXi7.0 Server Administrator, SFCB restart take approximately 60 seconds for restarting CIM
services on ESXi7.x host.
Using The Power CLI
To install Server Administrator using Power CLI:
1. Install the supported PowerCLI of ESXi on a supported Windows system.
2. Copy the OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-<version>-<bldno>.VIB-ESX<version>i_<bld-revno>.zip file to the
ESXi host.
3. Navigate to the bin directory.
4. Run Connect-VIServer and provide the server and other credentials.
5. Log on to the ESXi host using supported vSphere CLI of ESXi 6.x and create a datastore.
6. Create a folder OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-<version>-<bldno>.VIB-ESX<version>i on ESXi host under /vmfs/
volumes/<datastore_name> directory.
7. Copy the ESXi .zip file on ESXi 6.x host to /vmfs/volumes/<datastore_name>OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-
<version>-<bldno>.VIB-ESX<version>I directory.
8. Unzip the .zip file in the above specified directory.
9. Run the following command in Power CLI: Install-VMHostPatch -VMHost <ESXi host
IP> - HostPath /vmfs/volumes/<datastore_name>name>/OMSrvAdmin- Dell-Web-<version>-<-
metadata.zip>.VIBESX<version>i/cross_dell-openmanage-esxi_<version>-metadata.zip
NOTE: For ESXi7.x host, Server Administrator VIB name is change to openmanage.
NOTE: For ESXi7.x host, Server Administrator component name will be as DEL-openmanage.
NOTE: Restart of the Host OS is not required after installing or uninstalling the Server Administrator VIB /Component
package.
NOTE: After an ESXi Server Administrator VIB/Component installation, the CIM services are restarted automatically to
load the Server Administrator providers (DCIM service). It is recommended to wait for 2 - 3 minutes before logging in
from any Server Administrator web server. Else, the Server Administrator web server login to the ESXi host may fail.
NOTE: With an installed ESXi7.0 Server Administrator, SFCB restart takes approximately 60 seconds for restarting CIM
services on ESXi7.x host.
10. Run the following command to check if OpenManage is installed successfully on the host: For ESXi 6.x esxcli software
vib list|grep -i open
● For ESXi 7.0 run the following command to check if OpenManage is installed successfully on the host: esxcli
software component list | grep DEL-openmanage
OpenManage is displayed.
NOTE: For more information about Power CLI, see the VMware official website.
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