Users Guide

Overview

Operations Manager uses PRO-enabled Management Pack to collect and store information on Dell

hardware along with a description of their health status. Dell PRO Pack works with Operations Manager

and VMM 2012 to manage Dell physical devices and their hosted virtual machines (VMs) using this

available health information. Dell PRO Pack recommends remedial actions when monitored objects

transition to an unhealthy state (for example, virtual disk failure or predictive drive error), by leveraging the

monitoring and alerting capabilities of Operations Manager and remediation capabilities of VMM.

Also see:

Features and Functionalities

Understanding PRO Tip Management

Alerts and Recovery Actions

Related Terms

• A managed system is a Dell system running the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA), which

is monitored and managed using Operations Manager and VMM. It is managed locally or remotely

using supported tools.

• A management station or managing station is a Microsoft Windows based Dell system that has the

Operations Manager and VMM installed to manage virtual workloads.

What is a PRO Tip

PRO (Performance and Resource Optimization) Tip is a feature that monitors the virtual infrastructure and

provides alerts when there is an opportunity to optimize the usage of these resources. A PRO Tip window

contains the description of the event that generated the PRO Tip and the suggested remedial action. This

feature allows you to perform a load-balance of VMs between physical hosts, when specific threshold

values are reached. Alternatively, you can migrate VMs when a hardware failure is detected.

The PRO Tip window in the VMM Administrator console enables you to view active PRO Tips for the host

groups. The Operations Manager console displays the corresponding alerts as well, to ensure a consistent

monitoring experience.

You can manually implement the recommended action mentioned in the PRO Tip. You can also

configure the PRO tip to automatically implement the recommended action.

Features and Functionalities

Dell PRO Pack:

• Performs PRO-management of Dell PowerEdge systems running Microsoft Hyper-V platforms, by

continually monitoring the health of the physical and virtual infrastructure.

• Works with Operations Manager and VMM 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 PRO Pack, see Alerts and Recovery Actions.