Good morning, good afternoon and good evening. My name is Dustin, I'm a principal engineer SST
in the systems management space. Today I will be showing you how to deploy OpenManage enterprise
on VMware ESXI using vSphere. First you will need a VMware host with at least 16 gigabytes
of available memory, 20 gigabytes of available hard drive space, the OME appliance downloaded,
and a little bit of time. So first what we want to do is we want to start by downloading
the appliance itself this will be done on support.dell.com, put in your service tag
find your category of systems management and scroll down to see OpenManage Enterprise.
Once you see that you will want to hit the full driver details
and from here you'll see we have a few options the first option is vhd
this is for Hyper-V second option is kvm and that is for Linux and our third option is
ovf and that is the one that we're going to choose for VMware. So we're going to download the file,
I've already downloaded the file to make it a little bit quicker. Once downloaded you will want
to extract the file and this just needs to be in a place that's accessible from the vSphere client
so usually it's the desktop you're on when you're connecting to vSphere. So from here we go in here
and we see all of our files, so now that we have those and we know where they are we can go to our
vSphere client and we can import this ovf.
So we're going to deploy the ovf template,
we're going to choose a local file, we're going to go to our location we had earlier
And I find it easiest just to choose all the files. If you just choose ovf it'll
say you're missing files so you want them all, and from here we're going to give it a name.
I'll just go ahead and leave it as it is but some people may want to change it to the version number
they're on, the name of their company, whatever. We're going to put it into the data center.
We have this computer resource that we're choosing.
And what you'll see is we have a review the details it'll be 2.4 gigabytes then
and 211 gigabytes thick, so we'll want to choose our storage and I'm going to choose thin because
i don't want to take up all my hard drive space, and we're going to use this data store.
We do want to have a network, without a network you have a similar issue
you will actually have to redeploy if you don't put the network on at this time.
And we'll finish.
So if we notice after we deploy the ovf
it has to copy all the files over to the data store before it installs it, so that takes a
little while. So we're going to let that go and once that's finished we'll power it on.
So the appliance is done importing, now we'll go ahead and power it on,
and we'll give it a little time to fully power up
Once your vm is fully powered up it will come to the EULA page and user license
agreement. You'll want to press tab twice to accept that, you'll want to use the...
whatever language you're using. For us it'll be US, and we'll create a password
This password must not be forgotten if it is forgotten you will have to redeploy the appliance
The next step will be to set networking parameters.
So you'll want to tab over to get to the purple box
and then use your arrows to delete all the items.
So that's our main IP that I have, we're going to put in a gateway.
Subnet mask is good, and we also want DNS.
And we can choose to register with DNS if we would like to.
And it's going to restart services, and we'll give it just one moment to come up
So you'll connect to the IP address in a web browser, and once you do that on the first load
you should see this screen 'loading services starting up'. Services has started up now it's
time to log in. Username will be 'admin' and the pass will be whatever you set earlier.
So now we're on the very first initial setup page, so our initial settings here are going
to be your time and your proxy, and then you're able to start going into discovering devices.
We will have discovering devices and the initial settings covered on a future video.