Friday, July 30, 2010

openmanage on esxi4.0, 4.1

1. get openmanage offline bundle and vib for esxi from the dell site

2. deploy vsphere management appliance

3. set up a scratch partition on esxi host, if ya dont have enough space. Advanced settings --> scratchConfig


4. run the following command as vi-admin

vihostupdate --server esxi10.prv.sjc1.yahweh.net --username root --password yahwehstruth -i -b oem-dell-openmanage-esxi_6.1-0000.zip


5. on Esxi host, Advanced settings --> UserVars --> Uservars.CIMOEMProvidersEnabled =1

6. /usr/lib/ext/dell/dataeng status, start it

7. Go to support site( support.dell.com ) and search for 6.1.0, A00 – download Open Manage Server Administrator Managed Node. You can use this as server administrator.

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