With all of the new features of XenServer 5.6, I have been very
excited about rolling it out. There has been one thing though.
OpenManage and XenServer haven’t been the best pals. When we had
been trying to rollout any XenServer on a Dell Server, it seems
that we had to jump through hoops to make OpenManage work. Well
Dell has really worked on being more XenServer Friendly and
released a Supplemental Pack for XenServer.
A Supplemental Pack is an install package that can be
slipstreamed into the install of XenServer. So if you were
installing XenServer you would simply start with the install CD,
then use the Linux Templates Supplemental CD, and then use the Dell
OpenManage CD when it asks for you to continue the install. It is
great!
I had to call Dell to get a copy of the ISO because it was not
yet available on the website. Here is the link so that you too can
enjoy some Dell and Citrix Xen!
http://ftp.dell.com/sysman/OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-6.3.0-2075.XenServer56_A00.10.iso
By
the way, Thank You! Johanness Far (Dell Enterprise Technical
Support Senior Analyst) for getting me the link.
Hi David,
What machine are you using? I’m using a PE2950 (II) – 9G hardware
and am having issues with ‘dsm_sa_datamgrd’ segfaulting. I’ve been
working on this issue with Ent support for a day now … they
cannot reproduce this issue in the lab, however I’ve successfully
reproduced this on 3 identical machines. 🙁
I have installed on a
PowerEdge 2970 (AMD Architecture). By next week, I will be
installing on a 2950, and I will repost about my results.
Dell has confirmed and
replicated the issue now.
PE2950 (II gen – 9G). Once they added the additional NIC card my
machine has in it, they see the same issue. Dual Port Server NIC –
Originally ordered and provided by Dell 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet
Controller I am now also seeing segfaults of multipathd … that’s
a bit concerning! BTW, the 2970 isn’t supported by Dell for OMSA
6.3 for XenServer. Source:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smsom/6.3/en/peosom/installa.htm#wp999358
I spoke with Dell about a
month ago on the supported versions of OMSA on specific servers and
they cleared up the mud a little bit on this. The reason it is not
supported is because they did not test on the AMD architecture.
Upon speaking with a different Dell technician about this he
explained that it doesn’t mean that it will not work, it just means
that they do not guarantee that it will work.
Worked great for me.
Thanks for this.
Hello,
we had the same problem width Open manage 6.2 and Xenserver 5.6.
Then we installed Dell Open Manage 6.3 on Xenserver 5.6 . But it
didnt worked until we updated the firmware of the following
components: – DRAC – PERC5/i – BIOS – Backplane – Network After
updating the network card everithing worked fine. maybe it was only
necessary to update the NIC-Firmware.
Latest version of the
.iso as of October 2011 is listed below. I have installed this on a
XenServer 6 VM as a test but not yet tested it.
http://ftp.dell.com/sysman/OM-SrvAdmin-Dell-Web-LX-6.5.0-2247.XenServer56_A01.11.iso