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I recently bought a dell 2950 for my home lab and decided to slap esxi on it and this is a guide on how to install OSMA 7.4 on ESXI 5.x
Note:
At the time of the writing the latest installable version for ESXI is 5.5 update1 this version had issues with the OMSA agent due to a VMware bug, please update to the latest patch to get it up and running
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/177/t/19581502.aspx
Procedure – Summary
- Download the relevant packages – Link
- Enter the ESXI host to maintenance mode & Enable EXSI shell and SSH
- Install OSMA agent on the EXSI host
- Reboot
- Exit maintenance mode
On your workstation or server
- Install Dell open manager server administrator on your client PC or a sever
- Connect to with the ESXI host IP and host login credentials
Download the relevant packages
OSMA for various operating systems can be downloaded from the Dell website
In this case we are using –
Dell OpenManage 7.4 for ESXi 5.5 VIB (ESXI Agent)
Dell OpenManage 7.4 for Microsoft Windows x64 (Management Console)
Enter the ESXI host to maintenance mode
Using ssh
SSH in to the host server and run the following command
esxcli system maintenanceMode set --enable true
Using the VSphere client
Installing OSMA agent on the EXSI host
Transfer the Zip file to the host server using winscp
I used the following location
/var/log/vmware
You can use the data stores but I find this much easier
esxcli software vib install –d "/var/log/vmware/OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-7.4.0-876.VIB-ESX55i_A00.zip"
If you transferred the file to a data store
esxcli software vib install -d "/vmfs/volumes/Datastore/DirectoryName/PatchName.zip"
Reboot –f
Make sure the services are up and running
etc/init.d/./wsman status
It should return: openwsmand is running
etc/init.d/./sfcbd status
It should return: sfcbd is running
etc/init.d/./hostd status
It should return: hostd is running
Exit maintenance mode
Shell –
esxcli system maintenanceMode set --enable false
Installing the management console
Download the respective package for your workstation/Server and install it.
I installed the Dell OpenManage 7.4 for Microsoft Windows x64 on my workstation running windows 8.1
Open the application it will take you to a web interface
Login using the host server IP and credentials
Important-
Remember to select “ignore certificate issues” otherwise the login will timeout with the error
Login failed….
Connection timeout