How does HP iLO and Dell iDRAC be configured in vCAC?

[SASVenus]

Hello folks,

While creating new Endpoints to configure physical severs, we have a few options: HP iLO, Dell iDRAC and Cisco UCS. When we create a new reservation with physical servers, does vCAC communicate with the underlying server automation software (such as HP SA or BSA or others) or directly talk to physical servers via the above end points ?

vCAC provides integration (not OOTB) with HP SA and I believe with BMC Blade logic as well so trying to understand how would vCAC communicate with physical servers?

It would be great to know the underlying process for physical servers configuration in vCAC.

thanks                  

[ShibbyB]

I've done WIM based provisioning on both HP and Dell hardware, but can't speak to the HP SA and BSA integration that I believe is mentioned in the documentation. In the case of WIM to physical, the DEM contacts the iLO or iDRAC to initiate a power-on and leverages virtual media to mount the winpe ISO that contains the vCAC agent and configured with the vCAC server information. I put the ISO in the HP example on a webserver and for Dell it had to go on an NFS mount (I believe the guides say you can use CIFS, but I don't believe that is correct). The agent assumes DHCP is available on the network the physical server is connected too and retrieves the build instructions from the vCAC server and pulls down the WIM image from the path specified in the custom properties.

[harkamal]

Hello,

How do I configure iDRAC endpoints, will it be https://ipaddress or https://ipaddress/sdk or which format.

I added the above formats, and vcac fails data collection. Please guide me to the correct process.

thank you.

[harkamal]

Workflow "DellIdracDataCollection" failed with the following exception: An error has occurred when collecting Mac Address infos on Idrac card https://10.10.10.10/wsman

[kashifkarar01]

Hi,

You do not need to enter the /sdk.

Visit the following weblink for detaild video on HP ILO with vcac I tried it on vcac6.1 and it worked like champ:

http://www.vmwarelearning.com/MuaF/create-a-physical-endpoint-to-hp-ilo/