Administrator Guide

Getting Started

The Dell Storage vRealize Operations Management Pack is an embedded adapter that gathers topology, metrics, and alerts from Dell

Storage Manager for display on dashboards in VMware vRealize Operations Manager. This guide refers to the embedded management pack

as the Dell Storage Management Pack.

Topics:

• Introduction

• Requirements

• Installing and Conguring the Management Pack

Introduction

The Dell Storage Management Pack allows users to monitor and analyze the health and status of the network resources managed by Dell

Storage Manager. The Dell Storage Management Pack pulls data from Storage Centers managed by Dell Storage Manager.

NOTE

: The Dell Storage Management Pack requires VMware vRealize Operations Manager version 6.0 or later.

Requirements

For a list of the minimum revisions of software and rmware required for supporting the installation of the Dell Storage Management Pack,

see the Dell Storage vRealize Operations Management Pack Release Notes.

Installing and Conguring the Management Pack

You install the Dell Storage Management Pack, and then add and congure the adapter instances. Each adapter instance represents a Dell

Storage Manager Data Collector from which data is gathered and then displayed on the Dell Storage dashboards for further analysis.

Obtain the PAK File

Dell provides a standard VMware PAK le for installing the Dell Storage Management Pack.

The le is named DellStorageAdapter–01.02.0013_signed.pak. This le is also available from VMware’s Solution Exchange

Portal.

Download this PAK le and save it to a location such as your computer desktop.

Install the Dell Storage Management Pack

Before starting the installation process, make sure that you have downloaded the Dell PAK le to your local system.

1 Open a browser window to your vRealize Operations Manager in the following format:

https://IP

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