User's Manual

6 Introduction
Related Terms
• A managed system is a Dell system running Dell™ OpenManage™ System
Administrator and monitored and managed using SCOM/SCE and
SCVMM. It can be managed locally or remotely through a supported
Web browser.
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A management station (or) managing station can be a Microsoft® Windows®
-based Dell system which is used to manage virtualized infrastructures.
What is a PRO Tip?
PRO (Performance and Resource Optimization) Tip is a feature that enables
monitoring of your virtualized infrastructure and alerting when there is an
opportunity to optimize the usage of these resources. A PRO Tip window
consists of the description of the event that produced the PRO Tip and
suggested remedial action. This feature allows you to load-balance virtual
machines between physical hosts when specific thresholds, such as
temperature of CPU, are exceeded. Alternatively, you can migrate virtual
machines when a hardware failure is detected.
The PRO Tip window in the SCVMM Administrator console enables you to
view active PRO Tips for the host groups. The SCOM/SCE console displays
the corresponding alerts as well, to ensure a consistent monitoring experience.
You can implement the recommended action mentioned in the PRO Tip
manually or automatically.
Feature Highlights
The Dell PROPack 1.0:
• Simplifies management of physical and virtual machines on
Dell PowerEdge™ systems running Windows Server 2008 x64
Hyper-V operating system with SCVMM 2008, by continually
monitoring the health of your virtual infrastructure.
• Works with SCOM/SCE and SCVMM to detect events such as loss of
power supply redundancy, higher temperature than threshold values,
system storage battery error, virtual disk failure, and so on. For more
information on events supported by Dell PROPack, see "Alert Cause and
Recovery Action".