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OpenManage 5.5.0 on VMware Guest
Greeting Everyone,
My apologies if this has already been covered, however, I have a question regarding a VMware Server Guest (not the ESX host) and OpenManage.
Is it possible to install OMSA 5.5.0 on a Windows 2003 SP2 VMware server? Just to reiterate, this is NOT an ESX host - it's the guest OS provisioned from our VMware infrastructure.
We use OpenManage to keep track of server details, such as, primary admin, contact numbers, audits (more or less) etc... For this reason, it's beneficial for us to have OMSA installed on VM's.
Thank you for any help you may provide.
My apologies if this has already been covered, however, I have a question regarding a VMware Server Guest (not the ESX host) and OpenManage.
Is it possible to install OMSA 5.5.0 on a Windows 2003 SP2 VMware server? Just to reiterate, this is NOT an ESX host - it's the guest OS provisioned from our VMware infrastructure.
We use OpenManage to keep track of server details, such as, primary admin, contact numbers, audits (more or less) etc... For this reason, it's beneficial for us to have OMSA installed on VM's.
Thank you for any help you may provide.
Scott Hanson
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December 29th, 2008 11:00
One of our other users on the site has been using OMSA on VM's for purposes like yours. Give it a try if your comfortable falling outside the "official" support arena. If 5.5 won't install you might try 5.4 or 5.3.
univ_sysadmin
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December 29th, 2008 12:00
Unfortunately, I didn't have much luck getting either versions of OMSA installed on my VM. I extracted the OMSA .exe's to a directory, then opened a command prompt and ran the following:
msiexec.exe /i SysMgmt.msi
After a few moments, I was presented w/ the following:
Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Installer Information
"This is not a supported Dell Server. Dell OpenManage Server Administrator software can only be installed on supported Dell servers."
Hopefully, the other user that has done this can give me some insight on how he/she got it installed.
Appreciate your help and effort.
Stooartbaby
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January 1st, 2009 19:00
Sorry to say that it is not possible to install the OM client onto a VM guest... the only way I have been able to make it work is to install the client on a physical machine and then convert that machine to a VM... this was initially okay due to our ESX environment being so new... but as time goes on, we are creating more and more VMs that do not have the clients installed... currently 83 VMs are monitored, 12 are not...
With any luck, the new version of the Management suite will allow us to monitor VMs as well as physical boxes :)
Thanks,
Stuart.
univ_sysadmin
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January 2nd, 2009 07:00
Stooartbaby - I'm like you; I have a few VM's that have OM installed on them, but, in their original state they were physical machines that had OM installed, and then they were P2V'ed - and wahlaa...you have a VM with OM installed.
Hopefully the new Dell Management Console will address this issue. :)
Regards,
svhelden
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May 8th, 2009 02:00
Scott Hanson
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May 8th, 2009 10:00
svhelden
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May 8th, 2009 12:00
So I started the installation and watched with ProcMon what it does. And I noticed that it checks if a file "c:\nosystemcheck.txt" exists. So I just created this file, and the installation worked fine.
Maybe this file is created by the PreReqChecker? Didn't verify that. (On my system, the PreReqChecker didn't even start correctly.)
univ_sysadmin
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May 11th, 2009 07:00
Thanks!