OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Version 4.2 Web Client User's Guide

Creating system profile

1. In OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter, on the Manage > Deployment tab, select Deployment Templates > System Profiles.
2. Click .
3. On the Welcome page, read the instructions, and click Next.
   • In the Profile Name text box, enter the profile name.
   • In the Profile Description text box, type a description. The description value is optional.
4. Click Next.
   The Reference Server dialog box is displayed. You can either select 14th generation reference servers from the dialog box directly or through the browse button in the profile source page.
5. Select a 14th generation reference server by performing either of the following substeps:
   NOTE All hosts from 11th to 14th generations are displayed in the dialog box and the select link is enabled only for 14th generation complaint bare metal servers and hosts, whereas only 14th generation bare-metal servers are displayed and the select link is enabled only for complaint bare-metal servers.

   1. In the Reference Server dialog box, click the right 14th generation reference server, and click the Select link against the reference server.
      NOTE The Select link is enabled only for complaint servers.
   2. In the Reference Server page, click Browse to select a compliant 14th generation host reference server that is managed and successfully inventoried by OMIVV, or a compliant 14th generation bare-metal server.

   The Extract Confirmation dialog box that states extracting the settings is displayed. To extract the hardware configuration from reference server, in the Extract Confirmation dialog box, click Yes, and the extracting is completed in few minutes.

   The selected Server name, Reference Server Type, the iDRAC IP address, Model, and Service Tag are displayed in the Profile Source page.

   NOTE If Reference Server Type is a bare-metal server, only iDRAC IP is displayed whereas if Reference Server Type is a host, both iDRAC IP and host IP/FQDN is displayed.
6. Click Next.
7. On the Profile Settings page, expand iDRAC to view the system profile attributes. You can sort the data grid columns in ascending or descending order. Click the data filter icon to filter the data.
   1. To quickly view the Set Password link in the Value column, click , type 'password' in the Value Contains, and enter the password for enabled user.
      NOTE Dell EMC recommends you to provide the credentials same as the credentials used during addition of bare metal server. If you change the password in the deployment template, the changes are not displayed to the root user. During OS deployment, if Hypervisor Profile is associated with the deployment template, deployment takes connection profile (iDRAC and ESXi) password.
      NOTE The Set Password option is available only for the iDRAC enabled user with valid user name.
      Also, you can view the profile settings for the components based on the configuration of the Dell Reference Server such as iDRAC, BIOS, RAID, NIC, CNA, FCoE, and EvenFilters.
   2. Expand each of the components to display the setting options such as Instance, Attribute Name, Value, Destructive, Dependency, and Group.
      When you hover over the attributes, more information about the attribute is displayed.
      By default, few attributes such as Read Only, System Specific, and Destructive attributes are disabled for selection.
      If the dependency text is not available, dependency text is empty.
   NOTE When performing RPM upgrade, or backup and restore, following are applicable for all the migrated profiles:

   • When you hover over the attributes, attribute names are displayed.
   • Only non system-specific attributes are selected.
   • Dependency text is not displayed.
   • Enabled attributes display the total number of selected attributes.
8. Click Next.
   The Summary page is displayed that provides information about the profile details and the attribute statistics of the system configurations.

   The total number of attributes, total number of enabled attributes, total number of platform-specific attributes, and total number of destructive attributes are displayed under attribute statistics.

9. In the Summary page, click Finish.
   The profile is automatically saved, and is displayed in the System Profiles window.