Hello. Today we'll talk about OpenManage integration for VMware vCenter, and how to
configure the deployment modes on the appliance. In order to do this we will need to reference
some of the documentation information available on our drivers and downloads website for OMIVV.
To make this easier you can go to the 'Settings' menu within the OpenManage Integration plugin,
click on the 'Support' link, and then click on 'Dell EMC Support'.
For this video I have already gone to that website and downloaded the installation guide for OMIVV.
The information that we need for the deployment modes is available on page 18.
As you can see, there are different configuration changes depending on which deployment you like.
For example for a 'Small', which is a default, the number of CPUs required are two and eight
gigabytes of memory. If you wanted to change it to 'medium', 'large' or 'extra-large', depending on
the number of hosts that we have, we will need to change the number of CPUs and memory accordingly.
Switching the deployment mode in OMIVV can be a little bit tricky at first,
so I will show you an example, and how to change these settings using the OMIVV administration
console, and subsequently the vCenter. So first we'll go into the OMIVV administration console,
click on 'Appliance Management' and scroll down to the option for 'Deployment Mode'.
Here we'll need to click on the 'Edit' option and then select the deployment mode that we want.
In this case I'm going to select 'Large' and click 'Apply'. As you can see there's an error
on the screen saying that my appliance does not meet the configuration for this change.
In order to overcome this error we will need to go to vCenter and find our VM for our OMIVV. In
my case I will go to 'Menu', 'Hosting Clusters', find my OIMIVV virtual machine and turn it off.
Once the virtual machine is off I will be able to make configuration changes to the VM.
In this case I will right click on OMIVV and go to 'Edit Settings'.
For this next step I will need to reference the installation guide.
In my case instead of 'Large' I want to switch it to 'Medium'
which requires 4 CPUs and 16 gigabytes of memory.
Once the settings are adjusted you can click 'OK' and then power OMIVV back on.
OMIVV can take several minutes to restart.
For this I will launch the web console in order to see the current status.
Once we see the login prompt we'll need to go back to the
OMIVV administration console interface and log back in.
We will need to go back to the 'Appliance Management' section
and scroll down to 'Deployment Mode', click on 'Edit' and switch it to 'Medium' level.
As you can see this time the change was successful. There's a notification that
the appliance will need to be restarted. We can click 'Apply' and this process will be automatic.
We can view the status by going into the guest console for the virtual machine.
Once OMIVV finishes rebooting we can go to the administration console
and confirm that the change took place.
To do this we'll need to go back to 'Appliance Management'
and scroll down to 'Deployment Mode' and confirm that it reached 'Medium'.
This is how we configure deployment modes in OMIVV.
Thank you for watching this video, this is Miguel.