OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Version 4.3

OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter features

Following are the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter (OMIVV) appliance features:

Table 1. OMIVV features
FeaturesDescription
InventoryThe inventory feature provides the following:
  • PowerEdge server details, such as memory—quantity and type, NIC, PSU, processors, RAC, warranty information, server, cluster, and data center level view
  • Chassis details, such as Chassis Management Controller (CMC) or Management Module information, chassis power supply, KVM status, fan or thermal details, warranty information, switch, or server, or storage details.
  • Support for an MX chassis relationship in the Multi-Chassis Management (MCM) configuration.
  • Fabric information for an MX chassis MCM configuration.
  • QuickSync hardware information for an MX chassis.
Monitor and send alertsThe monitoring and alerting includes the following functionalities:
  • Detect key hardware faults and perform virtualization-aware actions. For example, migrate workloads or place host in a maintenance mode.
  • Provide intelligence such as inventory, events, alarms to diagnose server and chassis problems.
  • Support for VMware Proactive HA feature.
Firmware updates

The cluster-aware firmware update includes the following:

  • Update supported servers to the most recent version of BIOS and firmware.
  • BIOS and firmware update for vSAN clusters.

Drift detection for vSAN clusters
  • Firmware compliance for vSAN clusters.
  • Driver compliance for vSAN clusters.
Driver updatesDriver updates for vSAN clusters.
Deployment and provisioningCreate hardware profiles (11th to 14th Gen PowerEdge servers), System profiles (14th Gen servers), hypervisor profiles, and remotely deploy an operating system on the bare-metal servers using VMware vCenter without using PXE.
Service InformationRetrieve warranty information for the Dell EMC servers and its associated chassis from Dell’s warranty database and enable for easy online warranty upgrading.
Security role and permissions

Security role and permissions include the following functionalities:

  • Integrate with standard vCenter authentication, rules, and permissions.
  • Support for iDRAC Lockdown Mode in 14th Gen servers.
Support for OEM server

The following OMIVV features are supported:

  • Inventory
  • Monitor and send alerts
  • Firmware update
  • Deployment and provisioning
  • Service Information
  • Security role and permissions

NOTE: From OMIVV 4.0 onwards, only VMware vSphere Web Client is supported, and the vSphere desktop client is not supported.
NOTE: For vCenter 6.5 and later, the OMIVV appliance is available only for the flash version. The OMIVV appliance is not available for the HTML5 version.