[dedicated thread] Dell Open Manage Appliance

joncuddy

@AtaxyaNetwork
Thank you for providing these instructions. I tried this awhile back in January and it looked very promising, but I ended up getting stuck with similar problems like those listed above. I was checking this thread to see if there was an update, so it's somewhat nice to see I'm not the only one struggling with this.

We do have a support contract with Dell except they won't budge from there position. I went back and forth with my rep for a couple months with "best effort" but ultimately I was told XCP-ng is not a supported hypervisor. The old version on 3.x still works, so I'm stuck with that.

Hopefully others are asking Dell to add support for XCP-ng. I'll continue to watch this space for an update. Thanks again for your efforts.

olivierlambert

Thanks @joncuddy

We have to get back to Dell with a very large customer to change their mind. Catch 22 issue, but we have more and more (very) large customers, so this will change.

@stormi we need to note that somewhere internally and monitor the opportunity to get back to Dell with a deal big enough to change their mind.

flakpyro

I'd love to see support added for XCP-NG by Dell as well. I also run Lenovo xClarity Administrator and their appliance works in XCP-NG without any modification!

AtaxyaNetwork

@joncuddy @TheNorthernLight @pctechsolution

I have a new version available !

What's changed:

Fixed disk detection
CPU/RAM is correctly detected
I was able to install and uninstall some plugins (Power Manager, Integration for VMware Center, Operation Manager)
Network is configured with DHCP by default
Added the guest-tools !

To do:

Try to hack the grub password (because it's fun)
Have more feedback to tackle the last bugs (I know my fixes is not perfect)
Have Dell official support

Ping me if you want the appliance, I'll send you a link with the password !
I'll try to use it with my 3 R630 machines to do further tests

@olivierlambert can we change the topic title to something more accurate ?
Since it became the OME megathread

olivierlambert

On it, thanks for your work @AtaxyaNetwork

TheNorthernLight

@AtaxyaNetwork This is fantastic!
What remaining last bugs are you aware of?