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Dell OpenManage Storage Services (OMSS), also known as Dell OpenManage Server Administrator Storage Management is designed for system administrators who implement hardware RAID solutions and understand corporate and small business storage environments. OMSS allows you to configure the storage components attached to your system. These components include RAID and non-RAID controllers and the channels, ports, enclosures, and disks attached to them.
Using OMSS, you can configure and manage controller functions without accessing
the BIOS. These functions include configuring virtual disks and applying RAID levels and hot spares for data protection. You can initiate many other controller functions like rebuilds, troubleshooting, setting thresholds, and so on. Most functions can be configured and managed while the system remains
online and continues to process requests.
Dell OpenManage version 8.2 Documentation
- Documentation (Events, Management Tools, Release Notes etc.)
Dell OpenManage version 8.1.1 & version 8.1 Documentation
- Documentation (Events, Management Tools, Release Notes etc.)
Dell OpenManage version 8.0.1 Documentation
- Documentation (Events, Management Tools, Release Notes etc.)
Dell OpenManage version 8.0.2 Documentation
- Documentation (Events, Management Tools, Release Notes etc.)
Server Administrator v8.2 Documentation
You can refer to all the following and more documents from the Server Administrator Manuals page.
- Server Administrator Storage Management Guide
- Server Administrator CIM Reference Guide.
- Server Administrator SNMP Reference Guide.
- Server Administrator CLI (Command Line Interface) Guide.
- Server Administrator User's Guide
- Server Administrator Readme
- Server Administrator Release Notes
- Server Administrator Installation Guide
- Storage Management User's Guide
Server Administrator version 8.1.1 & version 8.1 Documentation
You can refer to all the following and more documents from the Server Administrator Manuals page.
- Server Administrator Storage Management User's Guide
- Server Administrator CLI (Command Line Interface) Guide.
- Server Administrator User's Guide
- Server Administrator Installation Guide
- Server Administrator Release Notes
Server Administrator version 8.0.1 Documentation
You can refer to all the following and more documents from the Server Administrator Manuals page.
- Server Administrator Storage Management User's Guide
- Server Administrator CLI (Command Line Interface) Guide.
- Server Administrator User's Guide
- Server Administrator Installation Guide
- Server Administrator Release Notes
Server Administrator version 8.0.2 Documentation
You can refer to all the following and more documents from the Server Administrator Manuals page.
- Server Administrator Storage Management User's Guide
- Server Administrator CLI (Command Line Interface) Guide.
- Server Administrator User's Guide
- Server Administrator Installation Guide
- Server Administrator Release Notes
Download
OMSA version 8.2 Download
OMSA version 8.2 can be downloaded from the following links. Please refer Server Administrator Installation Guide and OpenManage Support Matrix to install these packages on the supported operating system.
Microsoft Windows:
Linux:
- Consolidated Package (1008 MB)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (x64) (Distribution Package, 258 MB)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (x64) (Distribution Package, 261 MB)
- Novell SuSE Linux ES 11(x64) (Distribution Package, 250 MB)
- Novell SuSE Linux ES 12(x64) (Distribution Package, 238 MB)
VMware vSphere (ESXi) VIB:
To use the ESXi VIB with VMWare vSphere application, you can utilize the packages from Dell VMWare depot.
- Dell VMWare Depot (Download OMSA VIBs for different ESXi versions)()
- Dell VMWare Depot (SSL)
OMSA version 8.1.1 Download
OMSA version 8.1.1 can be downloaded from the following links. Please refer Server Administrator Installation Guide and OpenManage Support Matrix to install these packages on the supported operating system.
Microsoft Windows:
Linux:
- Consolidated Package (712 MB)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (x64) (Distribution Package, 199 MB)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (x64) (Distribution Package, 193 MB)
- Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (Distribution Package, 163 MB)
Citrix XenServer (Supplemental Pack):
- XenServer 6.5 (120 MB)
OMSA version 8.1 Download
OMSA version 8.1 can be downloaded from the following links. Please refer Server Administrator Installation Guide and OpenManage Support Matrix to install these packages on the supported operating system.
Microsoft Windows:
Linux:
- Consolidated Package (644 MB)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (x64) (Distribution Package, 182 MB)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (x64) (Distribution Package, 181 MB)
- Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (Distribution Package, 146 MB)
- Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (Distribution Package, 134 MB)
VMware vSphere (ESXi) VIB:
- Dell VMware Depot (Download OMSA VIBs for different ESXi versions)
- Dell VMware Depot (SSL)
- XenServer 6.5 (103 MB)
OMSA version 8.0.1 Download
OMSA version 8.0.1 can be downloaded from the following links. Please refer Server Administrator Installation Guide and OpenManage Support Matrix to install these packages on the supported operating system.
- Consolidated Package (1528 MB)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (x64) (Distribution Package, 184 MB)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (x64) (Distribution Package, 181 MB)
- Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (Distribution Package, 148 MB)
- Dell VMware Depot (Download OMSA VIBs for different ESXi versions)
- Dell VMware Depot (SSL)
- XenServer 6.2 (74 MB)
- Consolidated Package (1530 MB)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (x64) (Distribution Package, 184 MB)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (x64) (Distribution Package, 181 MB)
- Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (Distribution Package, 148 MB)
- Dell VMware Depot (Download OMSA VIBs for different ESXi versions)
- Dell VMware Depot (SSL)
- XenServer 6.2 (74 MB)
OMSS - Auto Configure RAID 0 Feature
In this video, we demonstrate how to use the Auto Configure RAID 0 feature in OpenManage Storage Services, to configure all physical disks in the Ready state, into RAID 0 virtual disks.
(Video contains voice-over and subtitles)
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OMSS 8.2 - RAID 10 Virtual Disk Expansion by Allocating Available Disk Space
OpenManage Storage Services can be used to expand the capacity of a virtual disk in two methods:
- Expanding the capacity of the virtual disk by increasing the percentage value, or
- Expanding the capacity of the virtual disk by adding physical disks into the original RAID 10 virtual disk.
In this video, we demonstrate how to expand the capacity of a RAID 10 virtual disk in OpenManage Storage Services, by allocating the available disk space of the physical disks in a RAID 10 virtual disk.
(Video contains voice-over and subtitles)
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OMSS 8.2 - RAID 10 Virtual Disk Expansion by Adding Physical Disks
OpenManage Storage Services can be used to expand the capacity of a virtual disk in two methods:
- Expanding the capacity of the virtual disk by increasing the percentage value, or
- Expanding the capacity of the virtual disk by adding physical disks into the original RAID 10 virtual disk.
In this video, we demonstrate how to expand the capacity of a RAID 10 virtual disk in OpenManage Storage Services, by adding physical disks into the original or existing RAID 10 virtual disk.
(Video contains voice-over and subtitles)
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OMSS 8.2 - Setting the Remaining Rated Write Endurance Threshold
The Remaining Rated Write Endurance Threshold feature is supported on PCIe and SAS/SATA SSDs. The Remaining Rated Write Endurance Threshold feature provides added feature functionality in managing the threshold level for PCIe SSDs, or SAS/SATA SSDs, or both based on your system configuration.
In this video, we demonstrate how to set the Remaining Rated Write Endurance Threshold for PCIe SSDs and SAS/SATA SSDs from the Storage Dashboard as well as from the Information/Configuration subtab.
(Video contains voice-over and subtitles)
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OMSS 7.2 - Enhancements in Virtual Disk Creation Wizard
The following video explains the methods of OpenManage Storage Services (OMSS) aided Virtual Disk creation via Express and Advanced Wizard on Dell PowerEdge™ systems.
Enhancements in Virtual Disk Creation Wizard feature from OpenManage Storage Services (OMSS) are available from OpenManage version 7.2 onwards.
This feature provides an improved algorithm that allows you to create RAID volumes in a more usable and effective approach. The feature has been developed keeping legacy compatibility in mind, therefore retaining all other feature and support which were available in the previous versions.
As a new feature of OM 7.2 – OMSS – Virtual Disk Creation Wizard, an improved algorithm that allows customers to create (any supported) RAID volumes in a more usable and effective approach is implemented. This video primarily showcase the user interactive pages of the same.
Video shows screen by screen deep dive for:
- Virtual Disk creation using the Express Wizard
- Virtual Disk creation using the Advanced Wizard with Dedicated Hot spare
- Virtual Disk creation using the Advanced Wizard with Dedicated Hot spare and Encryption
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OMSS - Configuring RAID 5 Virtual Disk using Server Administrator
The following video explains how to Configure RAID 5 using Server Administrator on Citrix XenServer 6.2.
RAID is a way to virtualize multiple, independent hard-disk drives into one or more arrays to improve performance, capacity, and reliability (availability).
RAID Level 5 (Striping With Distributed Parity) - RAID 5 provides data redundancy by using data striping in combination with parity information. Rather than dedicating a physical disk to parity, the parity information is striped across all physical disk drives in the disk group.
Using OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA), you can configure or reconfigure RAID from within the operating system. There is no need to restart the server to access the controller BIOS.
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