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November 2nd, 2021 01:00

Virtual Machine Remote Console through vpn + OpenManage Server Administrator Managed Node Fix

Hello all.
I had success to put together the fixes above after a few sleepless nights.

Scenario:

Dell PowerEdge T410 with PERC 6/i Raid 5
Vmware ESXI Dell OEM ver. 6.7
Microsoft L2TP vpn
RHEL 8
OMSA 10.1.0.0 both on VmWare and on RHEL

Step 1:
In order to fix the VMRC through vpn, you need to build a and install a new
certificate on ESXi using following these instructions:

https://www.vmwareblog.org/replace-default-esxi-ssl-certificate-self-signed-certificate-101-introduction/

When you connect the first time, (I connected to ESXi through a Microsoft vpn) you will get a warning message from VMRC.
Say yes to all, and you got it.

Step 2:

I used the following software:

On the Dell T410:

VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update03-17700523.x86_64-DellEMC_Customized-A14.iso - from Dell web site
OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-10.1.0.0-4634.VIB-ESX67i_A00.zip - OMSA vib extension from Dell web site

Install the 2 packages above on the phisical server.

On a RHEL8 Virtual machine inside the T410:

https://developers.redhat.com/content-gateway/file/rhel-8.4-x86_64-boot.iso - Developer edition from Red Hat web site
OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-10.1.0.0-4561_A00.tar.gz - OMSA for RHEL installer from Dell web site

Install RHEL on a phisical o virtual machine on your network.
Install and run the OMSA for RHEL. The install script will fail saying that the OS is unsupported.
Open setup.sh and remark out the following lines:

#else
# echo "Unsupported Server... OpenManage ${OM_VERSION} installation cannot continue.. Exiting !!"
# exit 1

Run setup.sh again
This time will work. It will complain for some missing libraries.
Install them using yum.
Complete the installation et voila`.
Connect to your RHEL 8 web browser using https://localhost:1311,
issue ip address, root userid and password of the ESXi server and you will have OMSA available.
This is the only way I could make OMSA working. The OMSA for Windows does not talk to ESXi
for an handshaking problem related to TLS1.1.
Regards

 

 

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November 5th, 2021 10:00

Update:
It works also on CentOS 8.

Instead of RHEL 8 I used the following package:
https://centos.mirror.garr.it/centos/8.4.2105/isos/x86_64/CentOS-8.4.2105-x86_64-boot.iso

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