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 Conguring 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 Conguring the Management Pack
You install the Dell Storage Management Pack, and then add and congure 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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