OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Version 4.3

Auto discovery prerequisites

Before attempting to discover the PowerEdge bare-metal servers, ensure that OMIVV has been already installed. The PowerEdge servers with iDRAC Express or iDRAC Enterprise can be discovered into a pool of bare-metal servers. Ensure that there is network connectivity from the Dell EMC bare-metal server’s iDRAC to the OMIVV appliance.

NOTE: The hosts with existing hypervisors should not be discovered in to OMIVV, instead add the hypervisor to a connection profile, and then reconcile with OMIVV by using the Host Compliance Wizard.

For auto discovery to occur, the following conditions must be met:

  • Power—ensure that you connect the server to the power outlet. The server need not be powered on.
  • Network connectivity—ensure that the server’s iDRAC has network connectivity and communicates with the provisioning server over port 4433. You can obtain the IP address by using a DHCP server or manually specify it in the iDRAC configuration utility.
  • Additional network settings—ensure that you enable Get DNS server address from DHCP setting, if using DHCP, so that DNS name resolution can occur.
  • Provisioning service location—ensure that iDRAC knows the IP address or host name of the provisioning service server. See Provisioning service location.
  • Account access disabled—ensure that you enable the administrative account access to iDRAC and if there are any iDRAC accounts with administrator privileges, first disable them from within the iDRAC web console. Once auto discovery completes successfully, the administrative iDRAC account is re-enabled.
  • Auto discovery enabled—ensure that the server’s iDRAC has auto discovery enabled so that the auto discovery process can begin.