Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter 2.0 Installation and Licensing
OpenManage™ Integration for VMware
vCenter Installation and Licensing
How things work and best practices
Michael Hepfer
Sangita Pandit
Kaushal Gala
November 2013
A Dell Technical White Paper
Date
Description
November
2013
Initial release
Revisions
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Table of contents
Revisions ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Executive summary .......................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
1 Installation ................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 Extracting the OVF .......................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2 Deploying the OpenManage Integration OVF ........................................................................................................... 5
2 Registering OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter............................................................................................... 7
3 License Types ............................................................................................................................................................................ 8
3.1 Version 1.x license ........................................................................................................................................................... 8
3.2 Version 2.0 Licenses ....................................................................................................................................................... 8
3.2.1 Evaluation License .......................................................................................................................................................... 8
3.2.2 Standard License ............................................................................................................................................................. 8
4 Licensed Hosts and vCenters .................................................................................................................................................. 9
4.1 Hosts.................................................................................................................................................................................. 9
4.2 vCenters ............................................................................................................................................................................ 9
5 Uploading Licenses ................................................................................................................................................................. 10
5.1 Replacement License for existing version 1.0 customers....................................................................................... 11
5.2 License file for new purchases .................................................................................................................................... 11
5.3 Stacking licenses ............................................................................................................................................................ 11
5.4 Expired Licenses ............................................................................................................................................................. 11
5.5 Replacement of Licenses .............................................................................................................................................. 11
6 Viewing Information about Uploaded Licenses ................................................................................................................. 12
6.1 The Dell Administration Console ............................................................................................................................... 12
6.2 The Dell Management Console .................................................................................................................................. 13
6.3 License Messaging ........................................................................................................................................................ 14
6.3.1 License expiring soon ................................................................................................................................................... 14
6.3.2 License has expired and is in a grace period ........................................................................................................... 14
6.3.3 All Licenses have expired ............................................................................................................................................. 15
6.3.4 Number of host licenses has been exceeded. ......................................................................................................... 15
7 Enforcement ............................................................................................................................................................................. 16
7.1 Appliance Updates ........................................................................................................................................................ 16
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7.2 Evaluation Licenses ....................................................................................................................................................... 16
7.3 Adding Hosts to Connection Profiles. ....................................................................................................................... 16
8 Conclusion ................................................................................................................................................................................ 17
Executive summary
The Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter is a virtual appliance that streamlines tools and
tasks associated with the management and deployment of Dell servers in your virtual environment. It
reduces complexity by natively integrating the key management capabilities into the VMware vCenter
console. It enables and speeds up bare metal provisioning from within vCenter and minimizes risk with
hardware alarms, streamlined firmware updates, and provides deep visibility into inventory, health and
warranty details.
With the 2.0 release of the Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter, a new license format is
used. Changes have been made to the license enforcement behavior in certain parts of the application
depending on the license type and expiration status. Cushioning has been built into the license
enforcement behavior on purchased licenses, allowing features to continue operating beyond the
expiration period, while also providing reasonable limits.
Having a strong understanding of the licensing procedure and enforcement behavior can help you get the
most from your license, and provide an understanding of when and why certain enforcement behavior
can occur.
Introduction
This white paper provides information on installing/deploying the OpenManage Integration for VMware
vCenter as a virtual appliance. The whitepaper also discusses the way the Dell OpenManage Integration for
VMware vCenter is licensed, the process for purchasing a license, the duration of the default trial license,
license enforcement mechanizms, and the built in cushioning designed into the product.
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1 Installation
1.1 Extracting the OVF
1. Unzip the zip file containing the OpenManage Integration package, and run the
Dell_OpenManage_Integration.exe file
2. Click Next to view the EULA before proceeding to extract the contents.
3. Click Yes to accept the EULA. To move to the Install Screen. Click Install to extract the files. All the
files are extracted to the same folder as with the file Dell_OpenManage_Integration.exe.
1.2 Deploying the OpenManage Integration OVF
1. Launch the VMware vSphere Desktop Client or Web Client.
2. For vSphere Desktop Client, Select File -> Deploy OVF Template.
For vSphere Web Client, right-click on a vCenter and select Deploy OVF Template.
Figure 1 Deploy OVF Template Menu Item
3. For vSphere Desktop Client, In the Source location window, use the Browse button to locate the OVF.
The location can be a local drive, network drive, CD-ROM/DVD, or the Internet.
For vSphere Web Client, select the appropriate radio button “URL or “Local File” for the OVF. For
“Local File”, use the Browse button to locate the OVF. Review the information, and then click Next.
4. For the screens that follow, provide the name/location details (datacenter, clusters, resource pool,
datastore, etc – depending on vCenter configuration ) for the deployed OVF.
Note: For the page showing datastore, select the format in which you want to store the virtual disks.
a. Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed
A lazy-zeroed thick disk has all disk space allocated at the time of creation, but each block
is zeroed only on first write. This results in a shorter creation time, but reduced
performance the first time a block is written to. Subsequent writes, however, have the
same performance as on eager-zeroed thick disks.
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b. Thick Provision Eager Zeroed [Recommended]
An eager-zeroed thick disk has all space allocated and zeroed out at the time of creation.
This increases the time it takes to create the disk, but results in the best performance, even
on the first write to each block.
c. Thin Provision
Space required for a thin-provisioned virtual disk is allocated and zeroed upon first write,
as opposed to upon creation. There is a higher I/O cost (similar to that of lazy-zeroed thick
disks) during the first write to an unwritten file block, but on subsequent writes thinprovisioned disks have the same performance as eager-zeroed thick disks.
Figure 2 Deploy OVF Template Wizard
5. Specify network setups /mapping as necessary.
6. Review information on the screen “Ready to Complete”. To Power on the Virtual Machine right after
deployment process completes, select the Power on after deployment check box. Click Finish to
start the deployment process.
7. After the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter virtual machine is powered ON, from the
vSphere Desktop Client or Web Client, locate the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter virtual
appliance and click the Console tab. (or ight-click the virtual appliance and select Open Console.)
8. Wait for the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter to finish booting up.
9. In the main menu, select Change Admin Password.
Figure 3 OpenManage Integration Virtual Machine Console
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