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Dell Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter: Generating Reports
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Introduction
The Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter streamlines data center operation by letting you use
VMware vCenter to manage your entire infrastructure—both physical and virtual. You can discover,
manage, and generate reports for Dell hardware using the Dell Management Plug-in. You can also view
these reports in VMware vCenter or export the reports to a file. This white paper discusses how to
export information from the Dell Management Plug-In into the standard CSV format, which you can
import into spreadsheets and other applications.
Reports
The Dell Management Plug-in provides a wealth of information about the state of the physical host.
Hardware reports are accessed by selecting a datacenter or cluster in the VMware vCenter client tree
view and then selecting the Dell Server Management tab at the top right of the output window. You
may need to scroll to the tab if the node you select contains many entries.
The Overview section shows how to select and export reports. Subsequent sections show screenshots
of the reports available in release 1.5 of the Dell Management Plug-in.
Overview report
Figure 1 shows the Overview report, which is displayed after selecting a datacenter. Displayed near
the top are the datacenter name and the number of hosts (three in this example) managed by the Dell
Management Plug-in for this datacenter. A similar screen is displayed when a cluster is selected from
the VMware vCenter client tree view.
Datacenter Overview report Figure 1.