Dell Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter
Managing hardware in a virtualized environment is harder than it needs to be. You face:
- Multiple consoles to switch between
- The lack of an efficient, consistent non-preboot execution environment (PXE) process to deploy hardware and hypervisors
- No integration between hardware alerts from your servers and remediation actions inside your virtual console
The physical and the virtual simply don't talk to one another. We've fixed that.
Get a rich, unified, comprehensive management experience for your virtualized infrastructure — both physical and virtual — with the Dell™ Management Plug-In for VMware® vCenter™ and the advanced management features of Dell PowerEdge™ servers.
A Better Way to Integrate the Physical and the Virtual
What if you could manage your physical infrastructure from your virtual console?
Increase the efficiency of your IT staff by using a common tool to manage your Dell hardware and your virtual infrastructure.
- Instead of switching from console to console to complete a task, do it all within your most-used virtualization console — VMware vCenter.
What if you could rapidly and consistently provision hardware and deploy virtual machines from within VMware vCenter?
Eliminate complexity and trial and error from the installation or expansion of your virtualized environment.
- Create and use hardware and hypervisor templates to ensure consistency.
- Maintain corporate-approved standards.
- Remove guesswork, whether you're deploying a few servers or hundreds.
What if you could reduce the number of steps needed to deploy virtual infrastructure?
Accelerate the time-to-value for your VMware virtualization infrastructure.
- Copy current server configurations to create templates that enable you to quickly reset hardware settings.
- Save configuration settings for ESX™ or ESXi™.
- Create deployment profiles from any combination of the two to deploy servers in a few clicks from within vCenter.
What if you could deploy server BIOS and firmware updates from within vCenter?
Keep your virtualized infrastructure current with minimal risk.
- Update BIOS and firmware from either a local share or from a Dell repository.
- Stage updates to coincide with the next reboot or other events.
- Take advantage of a wizard-driven update utility within vCenter.
The Dell Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter Makes It Possible
With the Dell Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter installed in your VMware environment, you can:
- Get deep-level detail from Dell servers for inventory, monitoring and alerting — all from within vCenter
- Deploy BIOS and firmware updates to Dell servers from within vCenter
- Build hardware and hypervisor profiles and deploy any combination of the two on bare-metal Dell PowerEdge servers without a preboot execution environment (PXE)
- Automatically perform Dell-recommended vCenter actions based on Dell hardware alerts
- Access Dell hardware warranty information online
And, to give you even more power, we deliver our plug-in as a virtual appliance. That makes it easier to deploy and configure and offers integration directly into the vCenter console, providing more information inside of vCenter itself — unlike many other vendors who provide only 'link-and-launch' capabilities to point to their own proprietary consoles.
The combination of the Dell Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter and the revolutionary embedded management features offered by Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller in Dell PowerEdge servers gives you an unmatched level of integration between vCenter and your server hardware.
No one supports VMware virtualized environments like Dell does.
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