{"id":10572,"date":"2015-02-11T23:12:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T04:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/?p=10572"},"modified":"2015-02-11T23:12:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T04:12:36","slug":"install-dell-openmanage-server-administrator-omsa-on-esxi-5-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/?p=10572","title":{"rendered":"Install Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) on ESXi 5.5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Contents<\/h2>\n
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  1. \n\t\tDownload<\/a>\n\t<\/li>\n\t
  2. \n\t\tInstall<\/a>\n\t\t
      \n\t\t\t
    1. \n\t\t\t\tInstall VIB Bundle on Host<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t
    2. \n\t\t\t\tInstall OMSA Client on Workstation<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t<\/ol>\n\t
    3. \n\t\tUse Server Administrator<\/a>\n\t<\/li>\n\t
    4. \n\t\tTaking Disk Offline<\/a>\n\t<\/li>\n\t
    5. \n\t\tReferences<\/a>\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n
       <\/div>\n

      Download<\/h2><\/span>\n

      * Download OMSA vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB) for ESXi5.5<\/strong> from here<\/a>. For example, I downloaded OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-7.3.0-588_A00.VIB-ESX55i.zip<\/a>
      \n* Download OMSA Managed Node for Windows<\/strong> from       here<\/a>. For example, OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-WIN-7.4.0-866_A00.exe<\/a><\/p>\n

      Install<\/h2><\/span>\n

      Install VIB Bundle on Host<\/h3><\/span>\n

      * Login vSphere client as root
      \n* Shutdown all VMs
      \n* Bring ESXi host into Maintenance mode
      \n* Enable ESXi SSH mode from host terminal if not already enabled
      \n* Copy OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-7.3.0-588_A00.VIB-ESX55i.zip<\/em> to host \/var\/log\/vmware<\/em> directory
      \n* SSH into host machine as root<\/p>\n

      \r\nesxcli software vib install -d \/var\/log\/vmware\/OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-7.3.0-588_A00.VIB-ESX55i.zip\r\n<\/pre>\n
      – Output:<\/p>\n
      \r\nInstallation Result\r\n   Message: The update completed successfully, but the system needs to be rebooted for the changes to be effective.\r\n   Reboot Required: true\r\n   VIBs Installed: Dell_bootbank_OpenManage_7.3.0.2-0000\r\n   VIBs Removed: \r\n   VIBs Skipped: \r\n<\/pre>\n
      * Alternatively, you can also run the following command from the vSphere CLI prompt from Windows machine (not tried):<\/p>\n
      \r\nesxcli.bat --server 192.168.1.135 software vib install -d \/var\/log\/vmware\/OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-7.3.0-588_A00.VIB-ESX55i.zip\r\n<\/pre>\n
      * Reboot host<\/p>\n
      \r\nesxcli system shutdown reboot -d 10 -r \"Install Dell OMSA\"\r\n<\/pre>\n
      * Check OMSA is installed:<\/p>\n
      \r\nesxcli software vib list|grep OpenManager\r\n\r\nesxcli software vib list|grep Dell\r\n<\/pre>\n
      Install OMSA Client on Workstation<\/h3><\/span>\n
      * Double click OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-WIN-7.4.0-866_A00.exe<\/em> to unzip content into a temp directory, e.g. C:\\prog\\OpenManage<\/em>
      \n* Change directory to C:\\prog\\OpenManage\\windows<\/em>
      \n* Double click setup.exe<\/em>
      \n* Select Custom<\/em> Install<\/p>\n
      \"omsaClient_setup_install_4_customInstall\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n
      * Select Server Administrator Web Server<\/em> feature<\/p>\n
      \"omsaClient_setup_install_5_serverAdminWebSvr\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n
      Use Server Administrator<\/h2><\/span>\n
      * Double click Server Administrator<\/em> icon
      \n* Login ESXi server. Make sure to check the option to ignore certificate warnings.<\/p>\n
      \"omsaClient_setup_svrAdmin_1_login\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n
      * Front page:<\/p>\n
      \"omsaClient_setup_svrAdmin_2_frontPage\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n
      Taking Disk Offline<\/h2><\/span>\n
      * Login OMSA
      \n* Take disk offline<\/p>\n
      \"omsaClient_setup_svrAdmin_5_diskOffline\"<\/a><\/h6><\/span>\n
      References<\/h2><\/span>\n
      * OMSA in a ESXi host<\/a>
      \n*       Dell OpenManage Server Administrator<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
      Download * Download OMSA vSphere Installation Bundle (VIB) for ESXi5.5 from here. For example, I downloaded OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-7.3.0-588_A00.VIB-ESX55i.zip * Download OMSA Managed Node for Windows from here. For example, OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-WIN-7.4.0-866_A00.exe Install Install VIB Bundle on Host * Login vSphere client as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[526,345],"tags":[650,527,531],"class_list":["post-10572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dell","category-esxi-vmware","tag-dell","tag-esx5-5","tag-omsa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8cRUO-2Kw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10579,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10572\/revisions\/10579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jianmingli.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}