Dell PowerEdge R220 wasn’t showing me any stats about my server components inside vSphere, even with the Dell Customized ESXi 6.5 ISO.
First, I’m noting that there isn’t a release of the VIB for 6.5 that I can find, so I used Dell OpenManage 8.4 VIB for ESXi 6.0 with success.
UPDATE 4/28/2017: Dell has released OMSA 8.5 and a VIB for ESXi 6.0-6.5.
Most of the components aren’t reading correctly. I rebooted a few times to see if this would kick in, but it didn’t.
After installing the VIB, this screen shows me the proper readings.
Anyways, to install this VIB and clean up these areas, first download the 6.0 VIB from Dell.
You’ll need to SSH into your host and execute a command to install this VIB.
esxcli software vib install -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/OM..
After typing OM (don’t enter ..) immediately hit <TAB> on your keyboard and it will enter the rest of the file name. I’d rather not type that all out anyways.
This should take a couple minutes, then reboot the host and you’re okay.
Now my hypervisor is in-tune with its hardware and furthermore I can utilize Dell OpenManage Server Administrator to manage the system.
Since this is ESXi 6.0 VIB on ESXi 6.5, I can’t provide support or guarantee functionality of this in production.
If there are any issues or feedback I would love to hear.
So how do you utilize Dell Server Administrator now? Where is it installed?
You will need to install the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator software on your local machine (for example https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER04242232M/1/OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-WINX64-8.5.0-2372_A00.exe ) and log in to your ESXi host through the management software, using the same IP and credentials as vSphere.
The transaction is not supported: VIB Dell_bootbank_OpenManage_8.5.0.ESXi650-2372 cannot be live installed.
Is there a way to enable live install? I am booting from a USB (8gb) with lots of free space.
Apologies. Where did you obtain that vib?
Other information about that message is to ensure host is in maintenance mode, try rebooting before the install, etc.
Since it’s on DELL’s VIBs depot, I’d imagine the above download link should work for a while.
Thanks for sharing this. I’ve updated the article with your contribution.
I forgot to mention that if you use the VIB for 6.5 from the link I provided, since it’s just the VIB file and not a ZIP, the command changes slightly as you’ll need to use -v and not -d as your command shows above.