Comments on: Setting Up Dell OpenManage on Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

By: Yipcanjo

Yipcanjo — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 23:02:27 +0000

AWESOME write-up! Thanks so much

By: Carsten

Carsten — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:33:32 +0000

I’ve just installed OM on my Hyper-V (running a 2008 R2 Core). I installed the 6.4 version from dell published the 27th of December. I too couldn’t run the prereqchecker.exe. I couldn’t run the setup.exe either, but I had success in running MSIEXEC /I SYSMGMT.MSI in the folder
\SYSMGMT\srvadmin\windows\SystemsManagement

I was prompted (and advised not to continue) because the prereqchecker wasn’t run prior to running the msi file. But choosing to continue made the installation of the OM go smoothly.

By: Bora Engin

Bora Engin — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:13:03 +0000

1 year passed since you wrote this article but even today it saved me to travel 460km and losing one weekend day with the server. Thank you so much and you can guess how much it is with a free weekend day

By: Rob Taylor-Shaw

Rob Taylor-Shaw — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:23:35 +0000

Hi Mark, thanks so much for the write up! I was wondering how I was going to be able to login remotely, or even at all without a reboot for some functions. I have a DRAC6 Express, but that does not access the raid controller, status, etc. Installation was a breeze on a Dell T410 with Hyper -V 2008 R2. Cheers!

Rob

By: Mark Berry

Mark Berry — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:51:20 +0000

Thanks Ian. I’ve corrected the path in the article.

By: Ian N

Ian N — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:17:58 +0000

Thanks for the firewall and web console info

Here is where i got the install and prereq info :

I saw there was a typo on your walk through above on the path of the runprereqchecks.exe

it needs to be : SYSMGMT\srvadmin\windows\prereqchecker

not : \SYSMGMT\ManagementStation\windows\prereqchecker

http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smsom/6.2/en/omsa_ig/html/serverco.htm#wp1063545

By: Mark Berry

Mark Berry — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:32:10 +0000

Sorry I don’t have an environment where I can test that easily. You might call Dell support–I’ve had pretty good success with the server support team–be sure to tell the calling routing person that it’s an OpenManage question.

By: Sang Moon

Sang Moon — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:35:58 +0000

Thx for quick response.

I just couldn’t pass prerequisite checker and couldn’t go beyond that.
Thx for your info.

By: Mark Berry

Mark Berry — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:18:25 +0000

It’s been awhile, but since I wrote “After agreeing to continue without having run the prerequisite checker,” I’m guessing that it must have prompted me about whether to continue without completing the prerequisite checks.

By: Sang Moon

Sang Moon — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:03:03 +0000

How did you run setup without having run the prerequisite checker?