Dell OEM Solution Owner's Manual
Dell™ OEM Solution -
®
Microsoft
System Center
Essentials 2010
Technical Information
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Contents
1 Dell OEM Solution - Microsoft System
Center Essentials 2010 Overview . . . . . . . 7
2 Essentials 2010 High Level Features . . . . . 9
3 Installing Essentials 2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installing Essentials 2010 OEM Solution on
Dell Hardware
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installing Essentials 2010 on a Single Dell System
Installing Essentials on a Dell PowerEdge
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System
Installing Essentials 2010 on Distributed Systems
Installing Essentials User Console and
Connecting to the Management Server
Installing Essentials 2010 OEM Solution with
Essentials Database on a Remote System . . . . . 15
Upgrading to Essentials 2010
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Contents
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4 Dell Management Packs for
Physical Hardware Management . . . . . . 18
Dell Management Pack Version 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Features of the Dell Management Packs 4.0
Features of Dell Performance and Resource Optimization
Management Pack 2.0 (PROPack)
Importing the Dell Management Packs and
Dell PRO Management Pack
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5 Dell Update Packages and
Dell Catalogs for Servers,
Business Client Computers . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Updating Managed Systems with Dell Catalog Files . . 26
Software Deployment from Software Console of
Essentials 2010
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6 Useful Links and Resources . . . . . . . . . 29
Important Essentials 2010 Documentation . . . . . . . 29
Microsoft Essentials 2010 Online Resources
Essentials 2010 Knowledge Base Articles
. . . . 30
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Useful Dell Links and other Resources
Dell Management Pack Download Links
Dell Updates for Dell Server and
Dell Client Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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7 Essentials 2010 Best Practices . . . . . . . . 32
Microsoft Scalability Guidelines for Essentials 2010. . 33
Configuring PRO Tips to Filter them
based on Severity
Configure Performance and Resource
Optimization (PRO) Tips
Enable or Disable a Host for VM Placement . . . . . . 34
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8 Supported Dell Hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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Dell OEM Solution - Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 Overview
Dell™ has partnered with Microsoft® to provide the OEM version of
Microsoft System Center Essentials (Essentials) 2010. System Center
Essentials 2010 is a management solution designed for the IT generalists in
medium-sized organizations that host up to 50 servers and 500 client systems.
The Essentials 2010 solution has enhanced features to manage your IT
ecosystem, comprising of both physical and virtual environments, from the
same management console.
The Dell OEM solution enables server consolidation, business continuity,
and dynamic provisioning thus simplifying complex management tasks. Dell
management packs facilitate manageability of Dell hardware from the
Essentials console by simplifying IT efficiency. The unified Essentials
solution and the Dell Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO)enabled management pack provide workload and application aware resource
optimization for the virtualized environment. This minimizes the downtime
and accelerates the time for resolving issues pertaining to the virtualized
environment.
Using the Essentials 2010 single console design, IT system administrators can
easily secure, update, monitor, and track their entire IT environment.
Additionally, Essentials 2010 includes many predefined reports that display
various types of information and preloaded management packs to help
monitor common operating system components, services, and applications.
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Essentials 2010 enables you to centrally manage Microsoft Windows®–based
servers and other computers and network devices in your organization. You
can perform the following tasks using Essentials 2010:
• Manage physical computers, virtual machines and devices in your
environment and examine computer hardware and software inventory.
• Monitor the health of managed computers and devices.
• Centrally manage updates, track installation progress and troubleshoot
problems by using the
Update Management
feature.
• Centrally deploy software, track progress, and troubleshoot problems by
using the
Software Deployment
feature.
The Essentials 2010 OEM Solution combined with corresponding Dell
management packs enables management of Dell hardware, such as:
• Dell PowerEdge™/PowerVault™ systems
• Dell Business Client systems such as Dell Latitude™, Dell Optiplex™ ,
and Dell Precision™ systems, and Dell Vostro™ systems that are grouped
under the Unmanaged group on the Essentials console.
NOTE: For Dell Vostro™ systems, Dell Client MP only supports classification
of Dell hardware and not monitoring.
• Dell Network Printers
• Dell PowerVault Modular Disk (MD) storage arrays that includes MD
3000, MD 3000i storage arrays and daisy-chained MD 1000 storage arrays.
• Dell Remote Access Controllers (DRAC) that includes DRAC4, DRAC5,
Integrated DRAC (iDRAC) 6 Modular, iDRAC 6 Monolithic,
DRAC/Modular Chassis, and Chassis Management Controller (CMC)
• Dell EqualLogic™ Peer Storage (PS) Series Arrays
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Essentials 2010 High Level Features
•
Essentials 2010 Console:
management console for managing your IT environment. The console runs
on the Essentials management server and provides access to all Essentials
2010 features. You can also install the Essentials 2010 console in a
distributed environment where the Essentials management server and the
Essentials console are deployed on different systems. You can also install
additional Essentials consoles for the same management server on
different systems.
•
Virtualization of your Server Environment in Essentials:
management has been introduced in System Center Essentials 2010 to
help small and mid-sized businesses maximize their technology resources.
A virtual machine emulates a complete hardware system and enables the
simultaneous operation of otherwise incompatible operating systems.
Using Essentials 2010 to monitor your virtual environment helps
maximize limited IT resources by consolidating under-utilized physical
servers and rapidly provisioning new virtual machines, which can be used
as application servers or to perform other similar tasks.
•
Update Management in Essentials:
administrators to view, download, and deploy software updates required by
operating systems and other software on managed computers. Dell has
partnered with Microsoft to distribute updates for Dell hardware through
the same update management experience.
•
Essentials 2010 OEM Experience:
and Microsoft, Essentials 2010 provides OEM experience in the Essentials
console which includes information about the OEM solution and helps
users in hardware management. The Dell logo, Dell WIKI link, Dell
Management Pack Manuals link, link for manuals for Dell OEM Essentials
solution, and Dell eSupport link are available as part of the OEM
experience.
Essentials 2010 introduces a unified
Virtualization
System Center Essentials 2010 allows
As part of partnership between Dell
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Installing Essentials 2010
System Requirements
For information on system requirements and supported platforms for System
Center Essentials, see http://technet.microsoft.com/hi-
in/systemcenter/essentials/bb422876(en-us).aspx
NOTE: For Dell Supported Platforms, see the "Supported Dell Hardware" on
page 34.
NOTE: For post installation configurations, see the “Configure System Center
Essentials 2010” section of System Center Essentials 2010 Deployment Guide.
Installing Essentials 2010 OEM Solution on Dell Hardware
You can install the Essentials 2010 OEM solution with the following
topologies:
• All components of Essentials 2010 OEM Solution installed on a Dell
system.
• Essentials 2010 OEM Solution with Essentials Console installed on a
remote Dell system.
• Essentials 2010 OEM Solution with Essentials Database installed on
remote Dell system.
For more information on deploying, configuring, troubleshooting, and
uninstalling System Center Essentials 2010, see the System Center Essentials
2010 Deployment Guide available at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/ff603599.aspx.
You can deploy Essentials 2010 using the Command Line Interface. For more
information on unattended and automated methods of installing Essentials
using command lines, see How to Use a Command Prompt to Install System
Center Essentials 2010 available at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/ff603580.aspx.
For more information on the recommendations for installing Essentials 2010,
see "Microsoft Scalability Guidelines for Essentials 2010" on page 33.
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Installing Essentials 2010 on a Single Dell System
In this setup, you install all the components of Essentials 2010 on a single
Dell system. This installation option provides a better alternative to mid-size
businesses for managing and monitoring the Dell hardware as all components
of the solution are available on a single host.
Installing Essentials on a Dell PowerEdge System
To install Essentials 2010:
1
Designate a Dell PowerEdge system as the Essentials management server.
The designated server must meet all software and hardware requirements.
For detailed information about these requirements, see the “Planning to
Deploy System Center Essentials 2010” section of the
Essentials 2010 Deployment Guide
available at
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb437287.aspx
System Center
NOTE: You can install Essentials on virtual machines running on Dell
PowerEdge systems that are hosted on supported Windows Server 2008
Hyper-v systems, which match the hardware requirements of Essentials 2010.
2
Insert the Essentials installation media into the optical drive.
3
Browse to the media directory and run the
4
When the
Release Notes
System Center Essentials 2010 Setup Wizard
to read important information that might be needed during
SetupSCE.exe
deployment.
5
Click
Install
to begin installing Essentials.
NOTE: Select the Get the latest updates to System Center Essentials 2010
option if you want to check for product updates.
6
On the
click
Product Registration
Next
.
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