RMU build Gen-1.5: IV. Best Practices - C. Dell OpenManage Enterprise

This page is part of the Gen-1.5 RMU build runbook.

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C. Dell OpenManage Enterprise (Recommended)

This is a service that allows you to talk to the Baseboard Management Controller(s) (BMC) of your IC nodes. This service will allow you to discover your Dell’s servers iDRACs (Dell’s version of a BMC.) Once configured, you will be able to apply firmware updates remotely.

Create VM

1. From the main Proxmox page, select Create VM to launch the Create: Virtual Machine dialog window.
2. Tick the Advanced box and the Start at boot: box, then enter VM ID of 123, set Name: to <dc>-ome. Enter 10 into the Start/Shutdown Order:. Select Next.
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3. Select Do not use any media. Set Type: to Other. Select Next.
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4. Ensure that Graphic card: is set to Default, SCSI Controller: is set to VirtIO SCSI single, Machine: is set to Default (i440fx), BIOS: is set to Default (SeaBIOS). Select Next.
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5. Ensure that Bus/Device: is set to IDE & 0, Storage: is set to local-zfs, Disk size (GiB): is set to 8, Backup: box is ticked, Async IO: is set to Default (io_uring). Select Next.
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6. Set Sockets to 1, set Type: to X86-64-v2-AES, set Cores: to 8. Select Next.
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7. Set Memory(MiB): to 16767 and Minimum memory (MB): to 2048. Select Next.
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8. Set Bridge: to vmbr1, set Mode: to Intel E1000, Disable the Firewall: tickbox. Select Next.
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9. Do NOT tick the Start after created because we need to map the (soon to be downloaded) OME image to a disk. Select Finish.
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Download & Import OME

1. On the RMU, download OME virtual image
2. Open a shell console on the RMU

   wget --user-agent="Mozilla" -O ome.zip 'https://dl.dell.com/FOLDER07474001M/1/openmanage_enterprise_kvm_format_3.6.1.zip?uid=c802e350-6536-4f28-7a66-93b4f844cd30&fn=openmanage_enterprise_kvm_format_3.6.1.zip'
   

3. Unzip the downloaded file

   apt update && apt install unzip -y
   unzip ome.zip
   

4. Import the QCOW2 image into the OEM VM’s space

   cd appliance/qemu-kvm/
   qm importdisk 123 openmanage_enterprise.qcow2 local-zfs
   

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5. Configure the imported disk as the boot disk for the VM
6. Select the OME VM on the left side
7. Select Hardware
8. Double click Unused Disk
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9. Set Bus/Device: to VirtIO Block. Select Add
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10. Select Options and double Click Boot Order
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11. Move the device with description local-zfs:vm-123-disk-1… to position 1. Tick the enable box next to it.
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12. Untick the enable box for all other boot devices Select OK
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13. When complete, your options screen should look like the following
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14. Select the OME VM and start it.

Configure OME

1. Select the OME VM and Select Console
2. Wait for the VM to start, please be patient as this is it’s first boot. (You can use your tab key to scroll through the options available and hit enter to select)
3. Select Accept
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4. Select your keyboard type
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5. Create a non trivial password and store it in your password manager.
6. Once you enter in your password, hit tab to scroll over apply and then enter to select.
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7. Use your arrow keys to scroll down to Set Networking Parameters and hit enter
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8. Hit enter on the available Network adapter
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9. Enter in your new non trivial password you just made.
10. Hit tab to scroll over Continue and hit enter
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11. Set static IPv4 IP Address to 10.10.100.23
    • You can use the arrow keys to get to DHCP and then hit tab to enter the editable text fields
12. Set Static Gateway to 10.10.100.1
13. Set Static Subnet Mask to 255.255.255.0
14. Set Static Preferred DNS server to 1.1.1.1
15. Select Apply
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16. Enter in your non trivial password and select Continue
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