Release Notes

Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter version 1.6 Release Notes

Issue 10: Balloon driver or vMotion is not functioning as expected.

Description: VMware tools are out of date causing potential issues like the balloon driver or

vMotion not to functioning as expected.

Resolution/Workaround: Tools can be updated by powering the virtual machine down and

changing the virtual machine type to Linux/Centos 32 bit. Once the virtual machine comes

back online do an automatic upgrade of the tools. Detailed steps are located at our tech

center site:

http://www.dell.com/vcenterplugin

Version Affected: 1.6

Issue 11: Deployments failure error message seen on R210 II machines.

Description: Timeout issue on R210 II systems produces a hypervisor deployments failure

error due to failure of BIOS to boot from attached ISO.

Resolution/Workaround: Manually install hypervisor on the machine.

Version Affected: 1.5.1, 1.6

Issue 12: Dell Management Plug-in gets a security error message.

Description: Although the SSL Certificate is valid on a vCenter and user credentials are correct, a

user encounters an error message saying , “There are either too many Virtual Management Console

connections or an incorrect user name or password or session ID, or an incorrect SSL certificate.

Please verify these items and try again.”

Resolution/Workaround: This happens due to an invalid session in vCenter. Simply closing and re-

opening the vSphere client resolves seeing this error message. You can check your session by clicking

“Sessions” under Administration in the vSphere Client for advanced troubleshooting.