Dell OpenManage Server Administrator 6.0.3 and ESXi 4

[Rimtuuk]

I am trying to install Dell OpenManage Server Administrator version 6.0.3. I have successfully installed this under ESXi 3.5 update 4. In the instructions it says to enable CIM OEM Providers by setting Misc.CimOemProvidersEnabled to 1. Misc.CimOemProvidersEnabled is suppose to be located under Advanced Settings misc however, in ESXi 4 it is not. Does anyone know where the moved the option to or is there a new way to enable this feature with ESXi 4?

[Schorschi · Accepted solution]

You don't install the agents directly on ESXi, they will come as injected code from VMware/Dell as a variant of ESXi. In effect they are not end-user installable on ESXi. HP already has similar variant for ESXi 3.5. But to my understanding, no hardware vendor has ESXi 4 variants released yet.

[Rimtuuk]

I think tomorrow I will try and install ESXi 3.5, get the openmange working and then upgrade to ESXi 4 and see what happens.

Thanks

[krishnaprasad]

OpenManage 6.0.3 is supported on ESXi 3.5 Update4. This comes integrated with the images which are posted on support.dell.com

in the case of ESXi 4.0, the ISO images will not be integrated with OpenManage. YOu will be able to download OpenManage files from support.dell.com and install it on ESXi 4.0.

I think dell is going to release this soon.

[AndreTheGiant]

You can find some useful information in larryl0099's post on this discussion:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/211864?tstart=0

Andre

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[Schorschi]

Talking to VMware today, on a number of things, this came up, as well. VMware is planning to radically improve the process of injecting 3rd party code to ESXi images. No details yet, only that VMware is going to re-visit or otherwise address anew this issue.

[steph22]

Hello Rimtuuk,

You can find the information you need at this url: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=1010745&sliceId=1