How To Install Dell Openmanage On Esxi 5 Download' title='How To Install Dell Openmanage On Esxi 5 Download' />Installing and Configuring Dell Management v. Center Plugin. DISCLAIMER I used to work for Dell. In January 2. 01. Dell released a new Management Plugin for v. Center that allows administrators to monitor and maintain Dell 1. Halo Single Player Game. G servers directly from the v. Center.  While the plugin is not free, it does provide value. I had a chance to play around with the plugin and thought Id share some information on the installation and configuration. To begin I cant stress enoughRTFM Before starting the installation, please read the README. TXT file and the User Guide included with the software. There is some important pre requisites about firmware versions of Dells i. DRAC and Life. Cycle Controller that must be met for the plugin to work correctly. I did my installation and testing on ESXi 4. The plugin works with ESX 4. ESXESXi 4. 1.  I chose ESXi as VMware has already stated that 4. Service Console.  As ESXi doesnt have a service console, the installation is a tad different then with ESX Classic. Some things youll need to get up and running Dell Management v. Center Plugin a self extracting EXEEither the VMware v. MA appliance or the Remote CLIThe latest Dell OMSA VIB for your server. Obviously, a Dell 1. Im setting up a Dell PowerEdge 2950 for a small business, and Ive just spent a while with Dell OpenManage Server Administrator 6. How To Install Dell Openmanage On Esxi 5 Download' title='How To Install Dell Openmanage On Esxi 5 Download' />G server running ESXi and VMware Virtual. Center Some basic monitoring features are available for 1. G servers, again read the docsLets get startedThe first thing I had to do was upgrade my R8. DRAC to 1. 5. 4 and Life. Cycle Controller to 1. This was easy to do using Dells Repository Manager tool. After running the self extracting EXE for the Management v. Center Plugin, you end up with a folder with a couple files disregard the downloads folder One of the requirements for the v. Center Plugin is to have the Dell Open. Manage Server Administrator agent OMSA install on the host. With ESX, its a matter of SFTPing the binary to the host and running the install shell script. However, ESXi is a little different. Torrent Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Fives. How To Install Dell Openmanage On Esxi 5 Download' title='How To Install Dell Openmanage On Esxi 5 Download' />There is no service console to run the agent, nor can you SSH into the host and run commands. This is where you need VMwares Remote CLI, or run the VMware v. MA appliance to manage ESXi host scripts and agents, in this case the Dell OMSA v. How To Install Dell Openmanage On Esxi 5 Download' title='How To Install Dell Openmanage On Esxi 5 Download' />Hello internetz I recently bought a dell 2950 for my home lab and decided to slap esxi on it and this is a guide on how to install OSMA 7. ESXI 5. x. Sphere Installation Bundle VIB. The OMSA VIB can be downloaded from http support. Using the following command from the Remote CLI installs the VIB C Program Files x. VMware. VMware v. Sphere CLIbin vihostupdate. IP address i b OM Srv. Admin Dell Web 6. VIB ESX4. 1iA0. Youll be prompted for the hosts username and password, after a few minutes the installation will complete. YOU MUST REBOOT THE HOST In my experience restarting the management network is not enough. The next step is using the v. Sphere Client to import the OVF file of the Management Console plugin appliance. In Virtual. Center, click on File, Deploy OVF Template. Locate the extracted OVF file from the Dell Management v. Center plugin folder and begin the import process. Once the appliance is imported, power it on. When you first start the Cent. OS based appliance it will reboot one time, then prompt you to set the admin password. Once the password is set, youll see a http link and options for configuring network settings, time zones, and other appliance management tasks. The next step is to open a browser and connect to the appliance. Log in with the password you set in the previous step. Click on VCENTER REGISTRATION on the left side and enter the Virtual. Center IP address and credentials of the Virtual. Center server that has the 1. G Dell hosts you wish to manage. This will register the plugin with Virtual. Center. With the OMSA VIB installed, the appliance configured and the v. Center plugin registered were ready to start using the plugin right. WRONG  This step hung me up for a while. In troubleshooting why I couldnt get any inventory, I found an article about configuring OMSA on ESXi 4. You need to change a value in the Advanced Settings section of the configuration tab for the host. Under User. Vars, set CIMoem. Provider. Enabled from 0 to 1. I was stuck here for a while because after this setting is changed, you MUST reboot the host again as just restarting the management agent doesnt work. Once the host is rebooted, you can now access the plugin from the Virtual. Center Home page disregard any certificate warning to be fixed in next version The first time you launch the Management Plugin, a wizard will guide you thru creating a Connection Profile. Enter the credentials for the i. DRAC of the server and the ESXi host. For a classic ESX server you can also enter the Open. Manage Server Administration URL. You can test the connection of the profile on the same screen. You will also be asked when to run Inventory and Warranty Status jobs. I decided to run the Inventory everyday at 3am and the Warranty Status once a week at 3am. You can force the jobs to Run Now under Job Queue from the left side menu. If youve had any issues with your Connection Profiles, your inventory and warranty history jobs will fail. This is either due to a failed OMSA VIB installed, or the CIMoem. Enable. Provider setting assuming youve eliminated any other basic networking issues. If you have successfully collected data, click on the host in Virtual. Center.  Youll now notice a Dell tab. Thats it  As you can see, I only have one power supply on this R8. Critical alert on the page. There are several option to view on the left side. You can also access the remote console of the i. DRAC.  If this was a classic ESX host, you could also access the Open. Manage Server Administrator web site. However on ESXi the web service is not there remember, no service consoleTo access OMSA on ESXi. Also, you can right click hosts in Virtual. Center and get a Dell context menu with some same tasks. I hope to do some more follow up posts on the some more of the features of the Dell Management Plugin for v.