Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 1178)

OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter Version 10.2 User Manual P010089-01A Rev. A
3. Using OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter
vSphere Console Views
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Accessing the vSphere Console
To access the vSphere console:
1. Log in to the VMware vSphere Client.
a. Double-click the VMware vSphere Client icon.
b. Enter the credentials and click Login.
2. Select a cluster or host in the vSphere console tree-view and click the Emulex
OneCommand tab to perform active management on a cluster or a host.
3. A Security Alert is displayed, click Yes. The vSphere console is displayed.
vSphere Console Views
The vSphere console supports two views:
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Cluster view
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Host view
To access the cluster view:
Select a cluster in the vSphere console tree-view and select the Emulex
OneCommand tab. The cluster view appears.
To access the host view:
Select a host in the vSphere console tree-view and select the Emulex OneCommand
tab. The host view appears.
In cluster and host views, the OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter window
consists of three major parts:
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The Emulex Device Management area.
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The Information pane corresponding to the option or element selected in the
Emulex Device Management area.
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The About area shows version information about the Emulex OneCommand
Manager for VMware vCenter.
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Console buttons
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Help – Click to load the complete indexed online help for OneCommand
Manager for VMware vCenter. You can search for information for all
OneCommand Manager for VMware tabs and functions.
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Refresh – Click to refresh the information. If a host is added to the currently
selected cluster, the host information is refreshed.
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Preferences – Click to access the User Preferences window. Available in host
view only. In the User Preferences window, select the Event Logging
checkbox to show up/down events for FC, FCoE and iSCSI ports logged
into the vSphere console. NIC port events are not logged, as VMware
already does this. FC, FCoE and iSCSI port events are limited to the active
vCenter client. If the same user login is used from another vCenter client,
the User Preference window does not show these events.