OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Reviews & Insights

OpenManage [Integration for VMware vCenter] helped [our] team centralize the management of our dell devices such as Dell Switches and Dell ESXi hosts and Servers. By the help of this portal we can see and monitor all our deployed devices across our branches. It help us to oversee deployed servers and see the device details.

When you start deploying dell servers that caters VMWares, [OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter] is very useful, aside from your main monitoring system, this platforms does the job well. [Its] centralized management of VMWare devices including dell switches, dell storage such as SAN. By this you can group devices or set of devices per branches so you can monitor outages, down time of a device.

The IT department uses this and I use it every few months. It makes keeping the firmware updates on my hosts easier to manage.

Makes managing and updating firmware of your hosts much easier and you can also ensure they are all built the same.

We use it to Simplify and automate management of servers across our network here in Denver. It allows us to much more easily manage the hardware and automate things to prevent downtime and constant maintenance, which helps give us better uptime, as well as provide our staff with a bit more time to work on other projects.

It's great if you have an environment or infrastructure layout that contains a number of servers and storage devices, either on-prem, in the cloud, or virtualized. This is a very comprehensive system that gives you a birds-eye view into the performance and specs of your system, and where it might be liable to break.

OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter was being used by our IT department in our ESXi server infrastructure to manage hardware monitoring of the Dell servers running our virtualized environment. Its most important function was planning and implementation of firmware upgrades and patches for the Dell servers running the virtualized environment.

Any multi Dell server virtualization environment can benefit from the improved process of upgrading firmware on the underlying hardware. It is particularly beneficial when paired with vMotion.