OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter for Web Client User's Guide Version 3.1

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 you to launch a separate console to resolve hardware issues. OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter is a product that lets you manage VMware vCenter servers from within the VMware Web client and free you from being tied to a Windows system. Using OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter, you have capabilities to manage and monitor Dell hardware within the virtualized environment, such as:

• Alerts and environmental monitoring: Detect key hardware faults and perform virtualization-aware actions (for example, migrate workloads or place host in maintenance mode).
• Single server monitoring and reporting: Monitoring and reporting capabilities of servers.
• Firmware updates: Update Dell hardware to the most recent version of BIOS and firmware.
• Enhanced deployment options: Create hardware profiles, hypervisor profiles, and deploy any combination of the two on bare-metal Dell PowerEdge servers, remotely and without PXE—using vCenter