Wednesday, September 28, 2011

No UserVars.CIMoemProviderEnabled After Installing Dell OpenManage Server Administrator on VMware ESXi 4.1

In my previous entry on Installing Dell OpenManage Server Administrator on VMware ESXi 4.1, I described the steps to install OMSA on VMware ESXi 4.1.  Today I tried to do the same thing for 2 new ESXi 4.1 hosts but found out that there was no UserVars.CIMoemProviderEnabled after the installation and rebooted the 2 hosts.
After some comparisons, it turned out that the 2 new hosts have a older build of ESXi 4.1 installed.  The build number is 260247.
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The build version that is working for me is ESXi 4.1.0 381591.  This should be the build with Update 1.
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So I went ahead and did an update for both the hosts using the update manager to ESXi 4.1.0 433742.
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After the update and the hosts rebooted, I am able to see the missing UserVars.CIMoemProviderEnabled and continue with the setup.

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