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3 Dell EMC OMIVV as a Hardware Support Manager for VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Contents
Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgments ............................................................................................................................................................... 2
Contents .............................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Terminology ........................................................................................................................................................................ 4
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 6
2 Baselining and remediation in OMIVV ......................................................................................................................... 7
2.1 Firmware repository profile ................................................................................................................................. 7
2.2 Driver repository profile ...................................................................................................................................... 7
2.3 System profile ..................................................................................................................................................... 7
2.4 Update cluster profile .......................................................................................................................................... 7
2.5 Drift detection in OMIVV ..................................................................................................................................... 8
2.6 Remediation in OMIVV ....................................................................................................................................... 8
3 Baselining using VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager ................................................................................................ 9
3.1 Register vSphere Lifecycle Manager in OMIVV ............................................................................................... 10
3.2 Prerequisites to use OMIVV as HSM in vSphere Lifecycle Manager ............................................................... 11
3.3 Associate OMIVV as HSM in vSphere Lifecycle Manager image .................................................................... 12
3.4 Examine drift status and resolution .................................................................................................................. 14
3.5 Pre-Check ......................................................................................................................................................... 15
3.6 Remediation in vSphere Lifecycle Manager ..................................................................................................... 16
3.7 vSAN Hardware Compatibility Listing (HCL) .................................................................................................... 18
4 Common issues when using OMIVV as a Hardware Support Manager .................................................................... 20
5 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................................. 27
6 Technical Support and Resources ............................................................................................................................. 28