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11 Dell EMC OMIVV as a Hardware Support Manager for VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager
If any vCenter 7.0 and later versions are present under registered vCenter in updated OMVV version, you can
register the vSphere Lifecycle Manager by clicking Register in the vSphere Lifecycle Manager column.
In case, if you want to unregister vSphere Lifecycle Manager with OMIVV, you can click Unregister in the
vSphere Lifecycle Manager column.
Figure 3: Unregister vSphere Lifecycle Manager in OMIVV
3.2 Prerequisites to use OMIVV as HSM in vSphere Lifecycle Manager
• Register vSphere Lifecycle Manager in OMIVV. For more information, see Register vSphere Lifecycle
Manager in OMIVV.
• Create Host credential profile (HCP)
HCP contains credentials of the hosts that is required to manage the hosts components such as
getting the host inventory and updating firmware.
Create at least one HCP and associate all your Dell EMC PowerEdge servers to HCP.
If HCP is not created and inventory is not successful, you cannot use OMIVV as HSM. For more
information about HCP, see OMIVV 5.1 User’s Guide
.
• Create firmware repository
Firmware repository contains firmware metadata of server components of Dell EMC PowerEdge
servers and the connection information to where the firmware executables are stored.
Create a firmware repository to manage the firmware components of servers in vSphere Lifecycle
Manager image.
By default, Dell EMC provides two firmware repositories.
One for managing Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and other for managing MX chassis.
The default firmware repositories maps to the metadata which points to Dell online which will have
latest firmware versions.
The online catalogs are updated frequently, and new information is posted across all the PowerEdge
servers every two weeks.
For baseline tracking, Dell Technologies recommends creating an offline firmware repository.
Offline repositories are required for vSAN clusters. For more information about creating firmware
repository, see OMIVV 5.1 User’s Guide
.
• Create Cluster Profile
Once firmware repository is created, you must create a cluster profile. Cluster profile contains meta
data of firmware repository, driver repository, and system profile.
Note: OMIVV supports only firmware repository with respect to vSphere Lifecycle Manager context. Associate
only firmware repository to a cluster profile.