Dell and OpenManage on ESX hosts

[NYSDHCR]

We are a 100% Dell shop running 6 Dell 6850s and 4 2950s. Has anyone had any issues running Dell OpenManage on their ESX hosts? Our hosts are at 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 level. A while back we had an issue (not OpenManage related) with one of our ESX hosts and the first thing VMware told is they do not recommend running any 3rd party products on the host...

I would be planning to install OpenManage 5.2.

[RParker]

NONE. We just installed 5.3.

[ScottHanson]

Install OM 5.3 like the other responder suggests. Follow the instructions here -->

Scott Hanson

Dell Enterprise Technology Center

[IB_IT]

if you install openmange on your hosts, you may want to think about increasing your SC memory allocation.

[NYSDHCR]

I already have my SC memory increased to 800MB. Looks like I'll have to wait until I upgrade to 3.5 before switching to 5.3.

[RParker]

No, OM 5.3 works just fine on ESX 3.02

[NYSDHCR]

According to Dell Documentation at http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/solutions/installing_dell_openmanage_on_esx.pdf, 5.3 is qualified on 3.0.2. update 1, and 3.0.2 is qualified on 5.2...