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OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Version 4.0 Web Client User's Guide

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OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter features

Following are the OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter (OMIVV) appliance features:

Table 1. OMIVV featuresThe following table lists the OMIVV features:
Features	Description
Inventory	The inventory feature provides the following: Dell PowerEdge server details, such as memory—quantity and type, NIC, PSU, processors, RAC, warranty information, server, cluster, and data center level view. Chassis details, such as chassis management controller information, chassis power supply, KVM status, fan/thermal details, warranty information, empty switch/server details.
Monitor and send alerts	The monitoring and alerting includes the following functionalities: Detect key hardware faults, and perform virtualization-aware actions. For example, migrate workloads or place host in maintenance mode. Provide intelligence such as, inventory, events, alarms to diagnose server problems.
Firmware updates	Update Dell hardware to the most recent version of BIOS and firmware.
Deployment and provisioning	Create hardware profiles, hypervisor profiles, and remotely deploy OS on the bare-metal Dell PowerEdge servers by using VMware vCenter without using PXE.
Service Information	Retrieve warranty information for the Dell servers and its associated chassis from Dell’s warranty database and allow for easy online warranty upgrading.
Security role and permissions	Integrate with standard vCenter authentication, rules, and permissions.

NOTE: From OMIVV 4.0 onwards, only VMware vSphere Web client is supported and the vSphere Desktop client is not supported.

NOTE: For vCenter 6.5 and later, the OMIVV appliance is available only for the flash version. The OMIVV appliance is not available for the HTML5 version.