Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade This Dell technical white paper describes how to install, purchase, apply license, and update the Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter. Michael Regert Kaushal Gala Muhammad Yousaf Trung M.
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Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade Contents Introduction .............................................................................................................. 5 Audience and scope ................................................................................................... 5 Prerequisites ........................................................................................................... 5 Installation ...........................
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Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade Introduction The Dell Management Plug-in is a virtual appliance, which is used to reduce tools and tasks associated with management and deployment of Dell servers in your virtual environment. It reduces complexity by natively integrating the key management capabilities into the vCenter console.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade Extracting the Dell Management Plug-in 1. Unzip the zip file containing the Dell Management Plug-in package, for example Dell Management Plug-in-Xhosts.zip (where X is 3, 10, 25, 50, and 100) and run setup.exe. 2. To view the EULA before proceeding to extract the contents, click Next. 3. To accept the EULA, click Yes. All the files are extracted to the same folder where you have setup.exe.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade Deploying the Dell Management Plug-in OVF file 1. Start the VMware vSphere Client application. NOTE: All the snapshots below are from VMware vSphere Client 5.0 2. Select File -> Deploy OVF Template. 3. In the Source location window, use the Browse button to locate the OVF package. The location can be a local drive, network drive, CD-ROM/DVD, or from the Internet. For version 1.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade 4. Review the information, and then click Next.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade 5. In the Name and Location window, specify a name and location for the deployed template. This name can contain up to 80 characters. Click Next.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade 6. Depending on the vCenter configuration, one of the following options displays: If resource pools are configured – On the Resource Pool page, select the pool 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. 7.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade 9. If you want to Power on the Virtual Machine right after deployment process completes, select the Power on after deployment check box. 10. To start the deployment process, click Finish.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade Purchasing the Dell Management Plug-in The Dell Management Plug-In is available as a free, fully functional (non-expiring) version, which is capable of managing a server and letting you try out the software risk free. When you are ready to purchase a license for more servers, Dell has a license structure that fits your needs. With version 1.5, we have expanded the granularity of the licenses for purchase.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade Administration Portal Figure 1.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade Dell Management Center Figure 2.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade Dell Tab within VMware vCenter Figure 3. Manage appliance health, inventory, storage, firmware, and warranty.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade Registering Dell Management Plug-in within vCenter and importing the license file To register Dell Management Plug-in within vCenter and upload the license file, you would first need to setup administrator password: 1. From the vSphere Client, select Home → Hosts and Clusters. 2. Locate the Dell Management Plug-in virtual appliance in the left pane. 3.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade Registering the Dell Management Plug-in 1. Launch Internet Explorer, and enter https:// as the URL. 2. On the Login page, enter administrator password and click Login. 3. Click Register New vCenter Server. 4. Enter the IP or Hostname of the vCenter server. 5. Enter the Admin User Name and the Password.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade 6. Verify the password. There is no need to upload a license for trial version of the Dell Management Plug-in. The trial version comes with a one host built-in license. To manage more hosts, or upgrade from trial to managing more hosts, upload the new license following below steps: 7. Click Upload License. 8. To navigate to the license file, click Browse. For example, the license file name is LicenseConfig.xml.asc.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade Figure 4. Appliance update information The Dell Management Plug-in virtual appliance takes advantage of RPM packaging and yum update process to update the virtual appliance to a newer version. The yum repositories containing RPM packages for the Dell Management Plug-in are found at http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/vcenter-plugin/.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade Figure 5. Editing the update repository path The Available Virtual Appliance Version indicates the version of the appliance represented by the repository at the Update Repository Path location. Updating the virtual appliance 1. In the Administration Portal, click Update Virtual Appliance. 2. Review the update information shown, and then click Update. Figure 6.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade Updating using the new OVF If you have the 1.0 version of the Dell Management Plug-in virtual appliance it does not support the yum update process or the virtual appliance is unable to upgrade using the normal yum update process. You can update your Dell Management Plug-in virtual appliance without losing any data. Follow the steps below: 1.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade Figure 8. Unregistering vCenter 4. In vSphere Client, on the Dell tab, shutdown the 1.0 virtual appliance by selecting the virtual appliance, right click, and then select Power->Shutdown Guest. 5.
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade c. Enter the credentials to access the share and the encryption password. d. To start the restoration process, click Apply. Figure 9. Restoring Data 2. The Restore process logs you out from the Administration Portal and prevents anyone from logging in until the process completes. After the process has completed, the appliance automatically reboots.
