OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Version 4.3

Viewing additional hardware configuration for chassis

You can view information about the warranty, storage, firmware, management controller details within the selected chassis. To view the information in this page, ensure that you run an inventory job and export a .CSV file with the component information.

About this task

To view warranty, storage, firmware, management controller details for chassis, perform the following steps:

Steps

  1. In the Home page, click vCenter.

  2. In the left pane, under OpenManage Integration, click Dell EMC Chassis.

  3. In the left pane, select the corresponding chassis IP.

  4. Click the Monitor tab.

    To see the information about warranty, storage, firmware, and management controller, navigate through OMIVV.

    Table 1. Firmware details
    Hardware configurationNavigation through OMIVVInformation
    Firmware
    1. In the Monitor tab, click the double arrow mark and expand the left pane, and then click Firmware.
    2. In the Monitor tab, If you click Launch Chassis, the Chassis Management Controller page is displayed.

    Information about firmware:

    • Component
    • Current Version
    Table 2. Management controller details
    Hardware configurationNavigation through OMIVVInformation
    Management controller
    1. In the Monitor tab, click the double arrow mark and expand the left pane, and then click Management Controller.
    2. In the Management Controller page, to view additional information, click the arrow mark and expand the left column.

    Information about management controller:

    • General
      • Name
      • Firmware Version
      • Last Update Time
      • Chassis Location
      • Hardware Version
    • Common Network
      • DNS Domain Name
      • Use DHCP for DNS
      • MAC Address
      • Redundancy Mode
    • IPv4 Information
      • IPv4 Enabled
      • DHCP Enabled
      • IP Address
      • Subnet Mask
      • Gateway
      • Preferred DNS Server
      • Alternate DNS Server
    • IPv6 Information
      • IPv6 Enabled
      • DHCP Enabled
      • IP Address
      • Link Local Address
      • Gateway
      • Preferred DNS Server
      • Alternate DNS Server
    • Local Access Configuration
      • Quick Sync Hardware Present
      • LCD Present
      • LED Present
      • KVM Enabled
    NOTE: Few attributes of network related information of a member chassis which is part of the MCM configuration is not displayed in the Management Controller section.
    Table 3. Storage information
    Hardware configurationNavigation through OMIVVInformation
    StorageIn the Monitor tab, click Storage.

    Information about storage:

    • Virtual Disks
    • Controllers
    • Enclosures
    • Physical Disks
    • Hot Spares

    For MX chassis, the following information is displayed:

    • Slot Number
    • Slot Name
    • Model
    • Service Tag
    • Firmware version
    • Asset Tag
    • Power State
    • Assignment Mode

    For MX chassis, if you want to view information about drives, click storage sled. The following drive information is displayed in the lower pane:

    • Health
    • State
    • Slot
    • Slot Assignment
    • Disk Name
    • Capacity
    • Bus protocol
    • Media

    For M1000e chassis, if you have a storage module, the following storage details are displayed in a grid view without any additional information:

    • Name
    • Model
    • Service Tag
    • IP Address (Link to storage)
    • Fabric
    • Group Name
    • Group IP Address (link to storage group)

    NOTE: When you click a highlighted link under storage, the View table displays the details for each highlighted item. In the view table, if you click each line item, additional information is displayed for each highlighted item.
    Table 4. Warranty information
    Hardware configurationNavigation through OMIVVInformation
    WarrantyIn the Monitor tab, click Warranty.

    Information about warranty:

    • Provider
    • Description
    • Status
    • Start Date
    • End Date
    • Days Left
    • Last Updated
    NOTE: To view warranty status, ensure that you run a warranty job. See Running a warranty retrieval job.