Dell VxRail Support for VMware

 

If you have a Dell VxRail Cluster with ESXi as your hypervisor, you can enable Dell VxRail support for PowerChute in the PowerChute Setup wizard.

Dell VxRail support is available with the Network Management Card 3. Please refer to the Operating System and Compatibility Chart for the supported NMC 3 firmware version number.

It is not supported to select HTTP as the communication protocol to communicate with the NMC for Dell VxRail configuration. HTTPS must be selected.

  When attempting to connect to VxRail Manager, if an untrusted SSL certificate is detected, a dialog to view the certificate will appear. Please verify that the certificate is correct and accept it in order to proceed. The certificate will be added to the PowerChute-keystore.

Enable Dell VxRail Support

To enable Dell VxRail support, open the PowerChute Setup wizard and follow the steps below.

NOTES:

  • PowerChute requires the VxRail Manager to be available to validate your credentials and configuration.
  • For a standard cluster configuration, a vCenter Server administrator account credentials must be provided.
  • In a stretched cluster configuration, PowerChute will shut down the Witness and Management hosts by directly connecting to them after the vCenter Server VM is shut down. You must configure a shared local user account with the Administrator role on vCenter Server and each VMware host and provide its credentials. For more information, see the Active Directory VMware Configuration topic.
  1. Ensure VxRail is selected in the Hyperconverged Infrastructure Support drop-down list in the vCenter Server Details screen and click Next.  
  2. In the VxRail Manager Details screen, enter your VxRail Manager VM IP address or hostname to continue.

  3. Click Next to validate the connection.

  4. If the connection to your Dell VxRail Manager VM/Cluster is successful, you will be directed to the Virtualization Settings screen where you can configure your Dell VxRail settings. These settings can later be edited in the Virtualization Settings screen in the PowerChute UI.

Dell VxRail Virtualization Settings

When Dell VxRail support is enabled, an additional section will appear in the Virtualization Settings screen in the PowerChute UI. For more information on this section, see: