Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter 2.0 Deployment Guide

Hypervisor Deployment using the
OpenManage Integration for VMware
vCenter

This Dell technical white paper describes how to use the OpenManage Integration
for VMware vCenter to deploy a hypervisor onto a Dell 11th Generation or later
bare metal server using vSphere Desktop Client.

Sangita Pandit
Mike Hepfer
October 2013

A Dell Technical White Paper

Revisions (2.0)

Date

Description

August 2013

Initial release

October 2013

Ported to new Dell template

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A Dell Technical White Paper

Table of contents

Revisions (2.0) .................................................................................................................................................................................... 2

Executive summary .......................................................................................................................................................................... 4

1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................ 5

2 The Deployment Wizard ........................................................................................................................................................... 6

2.1 Select servers ................................................................................................................................................................... 6

3 Deployment template ............................................................................................................................................................... 7

3.1 Creating a deployment template ................................................................................................................................. 7

3.2 Hardware profile.............................................................................................................................................................. 7

3.3 Creating a hardware profile .......................................................................................................................................... 7

3.4 Selecting the reference server ...................................................................................................................................... 8

4 Hypervisor profile ...................................................................................................................................................................... 9

4.1 Creating a hypervisor profile ......................................................................................................................................... 9

4.2 Global settings ................................................................................................................................................................. 9

4.3 Server identification ........................................................................................................................................................ 9

4.4 Connection profile ........................................................................................................................................................ 10

4.5 Creating a connection profile ...................................................................................................................................... 11

4.6 Selecting a connection profile..................................................................................................................................... 11

5 Schedule job ............................................................................................................................................................................. 12

6 The Job Queue ........................................................................................................................................................................ 13

7 Deployment jobs ...................................................................................................................................................................... 14

8 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................................................ 15

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Executive summary

The OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter is a virtual appliance that streamlines tools and tasks
associated with management and deployment of Dell servers in your virtual environment. It reduces
complexity by natively integrating the key management capabilities into the VMware vSphere Client
console. It minimizes risk with hardware alarms, streamlined firmware updates and deep visibility into
inventory, health and warranty details.

The OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter enables and speeds up bare metal provisioning from
within VMware vCenter. Rather than complicated server provisioning tools and processes, the
OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter uses the Deployment Wizard to both configure hardware
and deploy hypervisor. This automation reduces deployment steps from 55 to 9, reducing the time it takes
to go from an open box to a running host.

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1 Introduction

The OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter deploys a hypervisor onto a local hard disk for Dell
PowerEdge 11th and 12th Generation bare-metal servers. In addition, it deploys onto an Internal Dual SD
Module with a minimum of 1GB of storage.

This whitepaper provides the steps to deploy hypervisors using the vSphere Desktop Client.

Note: Automatic hypervisor deployments using the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter on
Internal Dual SD Modules are only supported for the ESXi versions and not supported on the legacy ESX
versions.

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