Dell Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter Quick Install Guide Version 1.
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Contents Notes, Cautions, and Warnings...................................................................................................2 1 Quick Start Installation...............................................................................................................5 Installation Introduction............................................................................................................................................5 Prerequisites......................................................
Quick Start Installation 1 Installation Introduction This guide provides step-by-step instructions for the installation and configuration of the Dell Management Plug-in installation on Dell servers. Once the installation is complete, refer to the Dell Management Plug-in User's Guide for information about all aspects of administration including: inventory management, monitoring and alerting, firmware updates, deployments and provisioning, and warranty management.
NOTE: The virtual appliance functions as a regular virtual machine; any interruptions or shut downs impacts overall functionality of the virtual appliance. Product Hardware Requirements The Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter provides full support for 11th and 12th generation Dell servers with iDRAC and limited support for 9th and 10th generation Dell servers. To determine what generation of Dell Servers you have, refer to the tables in the Release Notes.
4. Enable firmware updates. a. Download firmware updates, and make them available to applicable systems. 5. Configure the Dell iDRAC user name and password. Deploying the Dell Management Plug-in OVF Using the vSphere Client This procedure assumes that you have downloaded and extracted the product zip file (Dell_Management_Plugin_..ZIP) from the Dell website. NOTE: Thick Provision Eager Zeroed is the disk format recommended during this installation.
12. Depending on the vCenter configuration, one of the following options displays: – If resource pools are configured — On the Resource Pool page, select the pool of virtual servers to which the Dell Management Plug-in will be deployed. If resource pools are not configured — On the Hosts/Clusters page, select the host or cluster to which the Dell Management Plug-in will be deployed. 13. If there is more than one datastore available on the host, the Datastore page displays.
Figure 2. Console tab 5. Open a Web browser and type the appliance's IP address or hostname. For example: https://10.210.126.120 or https://myesxihost. The URL is not case sensitive. Figure 3. Administration Console 6. In the Administration Console login window, enter the password, and then click Login.
Figure 4. vCenter Registration Window from within the Administration Console 7. In the vCenter Registration window, click Register a new vCenter Server. 8. On the Register a New vCenter window, do the following: a) Under vCenter Name, in the vCenter Server IP or Hostname text box, enter the server IP or hostname and then in the Description text box, enter the optional description. b) Under Admin User Account, in the Admin User Name text box, enter the Admin user name. Enter the username as domain\user o
Figure 5. The Dell Managment Plug-in Successfully Added to vCenter Installation Verification The following steps verify that the Dell Management Plug-in installation was successful: 1. Confirm that the Dell Management Plug-in icon appears inside of vSphere Client. If it does not, restart the vSphere Client and check again. 2. Check that vCenter can communicate with the Dell Management Plug-in by attempting a ping command from the vCenter server to the virtual appliance IP address or hostname. 3.
Understanding How To Configure the Dell Management Plug-in Using the Wizard 2 After you do the basic installation of the Dell Management Plug-in, it needs to be configured. This is typically done using the Configuration Wizard, but you can also do it using the Settings page options in the Dell Management Center Setting's options. The user interface in both areas is similar except in the wizard you Save and Continue, whereas in the Settings options you click Apply.
Prior to using the Active Directory credentials with a connection profile, the Active Directory user account must exist in Active Directory and this account must already be enable in iDRAC. This wizard is not for creating Active Directory accounts or enabling Active Directory on iDRAC. To create a new connection profile using the wizard: 1. From the Connection Profiles tab, click Create New. 2.
– – For hosts already configured and enabled for Active Directory on which you want to use Active Directory, select the Use Active Directory check box; otherwise skip down to configure your Host Credentials. * In the Active Directory User Name text box, type the user name. Type the username in one of these formats: domain\username or domain/username or username@domain. The user name is limited to 256 characters. Refer to Microsoft Active Directory documentation for user name restrictions.
2. – Post only Critical and Warning Events - Post only critical or warning level hardware events. – Post only Virtualization-Related Critical and Warning Events - Post only virtualization-related critical and warning events; this is the default event posting level. To enable all hardware alarms and events, select the Enable Alarms for Dell Hosts check box. NOTE: Dell hosts that have alarms enabled respond to critical events by entering maintenance mode. 3.
The time you enter is your local time. Calculate the time difference you need to run the inventory collection at the proper time. c) To automatically run the inventory task once the wizard is complete, select the Run inventory at the end of the wizard [Recommended] check box. This check box only appears when the On Selected Days check box is selected. 3. To apply the changes and continue, click Save and Continue.
1. In the Configuration Wizard, on the Firmware Repository page, to choose the default repository for firmware updates, select one of the following: – Dell Online Default firmware repository (ftp.dell.com) with a staging folder. The Dell Management Plug-in downloads selected firmware updates and stores them in the staging folder, and then they are applied as necessary. – Local/shared repository These are created with the Dell Repository Manager application.
http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/Install+and+Configure+OMSA+on+ESX Configuring NFS Shares To use NFS shares with the Dell Management Plug-in for backup and restore operations, firmware updates, and as a staging folder, there are certain configuration items that you must complete. CIFS shares do not require additional configuration. To configure NFS shares: 1. On the machine hosting the NFS shares, edit /etc/exports to add: /share/path (rw) *(ro).
