I have vSphere Server with 2 Dell hosts (hypervisors)
A: is a 710, with iDrac6 essentials. Vanilla VMware Esxi 5.1 install B: is a 720 with iDrac7 enterprise. Dell customized VMware Esxi 5.5 install
I'd like VMware to have more visibility into Hardware health on both machines and have the firmware stating and patching available for "B".
I'm swimming in a bit of acronym soup here as it were. Finding a lot of cross over and explaitions of combinations that are either conflicting or confusing.
Can someone spell it out for me a bit? As I understand it
i - the VIB is what I might want to install on "A" to make it more like "B" that is the difference between the customized dell esxi and teh vanilla one is the capabilities of the VIB. I think. ii - i THINK OMSA is what you might install if you lack iDrac? iii - Which leaves me, with OME. I believe I should install OME on a system somewhere to act as a proxy between vSPhere and iDrac?
Thanks!