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Get Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter
With version 1.5 of the Dell Management Plug-in for VMware® vCenter™, we made it easier than ever to manage Dell servers in your VMware environment through agent-free management of Dell’s 12th generation servers. With version 1.5.1, we added localization in French, German, Japanese, Korean and simplified Chinese. Now, in version 1.6, we continue the trend of addressing customer requests by adding support for VMware vSphere™ 5.1 and VMware vCenter servers in linked mode.
Get rich, unified, comprehensive management features for your virtualized infrastructure — both physical and virtual — with the Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter and the advanced management features of Dell PowerEdge™ servers.

A better way to integrate the physical and the virtual

What if you could manage your physical infrastructure from your virtual console?
Increase the efficiency of your IT staff by using a common tool to manage your Dell hardware and your virtual infrastructure.
  • Instead of switching from console to console, you can complete your task within your most-used virtualization console — VMware vCenter.
What if you could rapidly and consistently provision hardware and deploy virtual machines from within VMware vCenter?
Eliminate complexity, and trial and error from the installation or expansion of your virtualized environment.
  • Create and use hardware and hypervisor templates to ensure consistency.
  • Maintain corporate-approved standards.
  • Remove guesswork, whether you're deploying a few servers or hundreds.
What if you could reduce the number of steps needed to deploy virtual infrastructure?
Accelerate the time to value for your VMware virtualization infrastructure.
  • Copy current server configurations to create templates that enable you to quickly reset hardware settings.
  • Save configuration settings for ESX™ or ESXi™ with support up through VMware vSphere version 5.1.
  • Create deployment profiles from any combination of the two to deploy servers in a few clicks from within vCenter.
What if you could deploy server BIOS and firmware updates from within vCenter?
Keep your virtualized infrastructure current with minimal risk.
  • Update BIOS and firmware from either a local share or from a Dell repository.
  • Stage updates to coincide with the next reboot or other events.
  • Take advantage of a wizard-driven update utility within vCenter.
The Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter makes it possible
With the Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter installed in your VMware environment, you can:
  • Get deep-level detail from Dell servers for inventory, monitoring and alerting — all from within vCenter.
  • Deploy BIOS and firmware updates to Dell servers from within vCenter.
  • Build hardware and hypervisor profiles, and deploy any combination of the two on bare-metal Dell PowerEdge servers without a PXE.
  • Automatically perform Dell-recommended vCenter actions based on Dell hardware alerts.
  • Access your warranty from the Dell hardware warranty page online. Receive proactive renewal alerts from Dell before your warranty expires.
In addition, to give you even more power, we deliver our plug-in as a virtual appliance and make it easy for you to update it online without replacing it entirely. That makes our plug-in easier to deploy, configure and manage. This approach offers integration directly into the vCenter console. As a result, you can access more information inside of vCenter itself — unlike many other link-and-launch capabilities provided by vendors that point to their own proprietary consoles.

The combination of the Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter and the revolutionary embedded management features offered by Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller in Dell PowerEdge servers gives you an unmatched level of integration between vCenter and your server hardware.
No one supports VMware-virtualized environments like Dell does.

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