Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter 1.7 User Manual download pdf (Page 9)

Overview

Dell Management Plug-in For VMware vCenter

VMware vCenter is the primary console used by IT administrators to manage and monitor VMware vSphere ESX/ESXi

hosts. In a standard virtualized environment, VMware alerts and monitoring are used to prompt an administrator to

launch a separate console to resolve hardware issues. Today, using the Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter,

administrators have new capabilities to manage and monitor Dell hardware within the virtualized environment, such as:

• Alerting and environment monitoring

• Single server monitoring and reporting

• Firmware updates

• Enhanced deployment options

Key Features

Dell customers can use the Dell Management Plug-in to perform:

Inventory Inventory key assets, perform configuration tasks, and provide cluster and datacenter views of

Dell platforms.

Monitoring and

Alerting

Detect key hardware faults and perform virtualization-aware actions (for example, migrate

workloads or place host in maintenance mode).

Firmware

Updates

Update Dell hardware to the most recent version of BIOS and firmware.

Deployment and

Provisioning

Create hardware profiles, hypervisor profiles, and deploy any combination of the two on bare-

metal Dell PowerEdge servers, remotely and without PXE—using vCenter.

Service

Information

Retrieve warranty information from Dell online.

How Does the Dell Management Plug-in Help With vCenter

Administration

Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter provides additional virtualization functionality that supplements the

current vCenter administration functions:

• Compresses tasks and adds management processes, such as firmware updates and bare-metal deployment, to

the vCenter Server Administration Console.

• Organizes deployment of multiple bare-metal servers without requiring Preboot Execution Environment (PXE).

• Provides additional intelligence (inventory, events, alarms) to diagnose server problems.

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