Hello, my name is Ted. I'm a Senior Engineer in the Systems Management space at Dell Technologies. In this video I'm going to be covering bare-metal discovery in OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter.
To begin the process of a manual discovery we're going to open up our OMIVV, 'Compliance and Deployment' and then 'Deployment'.
Here we can choose discovery options for our bare-metal servers. Here I'm going to create a discovery job named 'bare metal manual discovery'. I'm going to add a single IP address to discover and I'm going to provide credentials for the iDRAC.
I'm going to run this discovery task now. Here in the jobs view we can see the progress of this job and watch it complete. Here we can see that the job for bare metal discovery was successful.
Under 'Compliance and Deployment' we can see here the server that we have discovered with our bare metal discovery job.
From here we can deploy a fresh operating system onto our server and add it to our vCenter. It's also good to mention here at this point that if we are using auto discovery for our iDRACs that we can have OMIVV provision those here directly.
Auto discovery is a feature of the iDRAC that allows bare-metal servers to be imported into our management consoles.
The prerequisites for auto discovery are having power to the server, network connectivity to the iDRAC as well as port 4433 open, any additional settings to resolve DNS names or to get a DHCP server address.
The provisioning service location has to also be provided. This can be manually specified in the iDRAC, that is under 'iDRAC Configuration', 'LAN', 'User Configuration' and 'Provisioning Server'. You can specify it with a DHCP scope option or a DNS serve record.
If the provisioning service value is not manually specified in the iDRAC configuration the iDRAC will first attempt to use the DHCP scope option value, and if the scope option value is not present the iDRAC will attempt to use the service record value from DSN.
When doing auto discovery it's important to have all administrative accounts on iDRAC disabled, as well as having the auto discovery option enabled.
For auto discovered servers the credentials provided here in 'Settings', 'Deployment Credentials' will be used as the admin credentials and will be used for further communication with this server until an operating system is deployed.
After deploying an operating system to your bare-metal server the iDRAC credentials that are provided and associated with the host credential profile will be used for that server.
This concludes our video on bare-metal discovery using OMIVV. Thank you so much and have a great day.
