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Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter: Installation, Purchase, Licensing, and Upgrade

Updating using the new OVF

If you have the 1.0 version of the Dell Management Plug-in virtual appliance it does not support the

yum update process or the virtual appliance is unable to upgrade using the normal yum update process.

You can update your Dell Management Plug-in virtual appliance without losing any data. Follow the

steps below:

1. Login into the Administration Portal (https://<ApplianceIPAddress>) and in the left pane, click

Backup and Restore.

2. Backup the virtual appliance data to a network share location using following steps:

a. In the Backup and Restore Settings page, click Backup Now.

b. Enter network share path in UNC format, the credentials to access the share and

encryption password in the dialog that is shown.

c. Click Apply.

Backing up data Figure 7.

3. On the vCenter Registration window, to unregister all registered vCenters to which the Dell

Management Plug-in is registered, click Unregister.