Hello. My name is Ted. I'm a senior engineer with the Systems Management group at Dell EMC.
In this video we're going to go over OpenManage integration for VMware vCenter in it's used as a
virtual lifecycle manager with vSphere 7. First thing to note is when using OMIVV as a life
cycle manager, we can configure this when we're first discovering the vCenter or when we are,
after we upgrade we can add it as an additional feature later.
Let's go ahead and log into OMIVV and show you what it looks like when we're
registering a new vCenter. There is this little check box, right here,
to register with vSphere lifecycle manager for vCenter 7 and later. Once registered
with the life cycle manager you will see this here as saying 'Unregister'.
You can also register by clicking on the link and then clicking 'Register with vCenter'.
Once OMIVV is registered as lifecycle manager with vCenter, we log into vCenter and we can check
a couple of prerequisites that are needed. Here in OMIVV, under 'Compliance and Deployment'
you do need to have a cluster profile created for your cluster,
or else you cannot use it as a virtual life cycle manager.
Under the 'Host and Clusters' view, in our cluster, under the 'Updates'
section we want to go to 'Image',
'Set up a New Image' and then we can add OMIVV as an add-in here. Once all checks are complete you
can see we have an option to select what versions we want to use. I'm going to choose 7.0, update 1.
I am also going to choose the 'Firmware and Driver Addon' for OMIVV.
Here from the drop down we can see Dell EMC OMIVV is listed. We can select the
firmware and driver version supported for this, and add it to our single image.
Now we must validate this image and then we can complete the image setup.
Now that we have a valid image we can save this, and apply it to our cluster for remediation.
You do not have to wait for the image check compliance to complete before finishing the
image setup. Here is the warning box that tells us that once we go to image based cluster management
we are not going to be able to use baselines any longer for our cluster.
We can of course come back and customize our image at a later time.
That concludes our video on virtual life cycle management with OMIVV as an integrated VLCM.
Thank you so much for watching, have a great day.