Users Guide

6 Contents
6 Management Plug-In Administration . . 81
Web-based Administration Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
vCenter Registration
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Virtual Appliance Management
. . . . . . . . . . . 83
Global vCenter Alert Settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Plug-in Database Backup and Restore
. . . . . . . 87
Console View
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Configure Network Settings
. . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Change Virtual Appliance Administration Password
89
Set Local Time Zone
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Reboot Virtual Appliance
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Reset Virtual Appliance to Factory Settings
. . . . 90
Refresh Console Tab View
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
ReadOnly User Role
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
7 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Common Questions
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Bare-Metal Deployment
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Auto-Discovery and Handshake Prerequisites
. . . 96
Hardware Configuration Failure
. . . . . . . . . . 96
Enabling Auto-Discovery on a Newly-Purchased
System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Contacting Dell
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Where to get additional help for this software
. . . . . 98
Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter Related
information
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98