[TUTORIAL] Dell OpenManage Enterprise

[Hai]

Has anyone succesfully created a VM on proxmox with OME appliance? I'am trying to create a VM with provided openmanage_enterprise_kvm_format_4.0.1 files but unable to get the VM to boot.

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-sg/000175879/support-for-openmanage-enterprise

If anyone was succesful can you please share the steps ?

 

[marduka]

Hi, my VM is running but booting stops with message "booting from hard disk". I used this guide

https://ostechnix.com/import-qcow2-into-proxmox/

and tried every plausible setting. No change.

I even tried it on a Synology with virtual disks of different types (KVM, HyperV, ...). There booting stops with the same message. However, the Synology doesn't have enough RAM

 

[Hai]

Hi, my VM is running but booting stops with message "booting from hard disk". I used this guide

https://ostechnix.com/import-qcow2-into-proxmox/

and tried every plausible setting. No change.

I even tried it on a Synology with virtual disks of different types (KVM, HyperV, ...). There booting stops with the same message. However, the Synology doesn't have enough RAM

I have successfully installed it now and it works perfectly. I will post a guide later on how to make it work

 

[Hai]

Create Empty VM:



Important to choose q35, and OVMF(uefi) bios, also EFI DISK with pre-enrolled keys.

delete the disks

give a good amount of cpu and ram




Donwload and unzip the dell ome KVM files inside /var/tmp

Then import the disks with commands:

qm disk import <vmid> /var/tmp/openmanage_enterprise.qcow2 local-zfs
qm disk import <vmid> /var/tmp/openmanage_enterprise.qcow2-1 local-zfs

Attach Unused disk0 and Unused disk1 under hardware


Go to options, boot order, enable virtio0 and change to first place.


Start the VM and then do nothing, it will reboot once, and then boot again. It should look something like this:
It may take up to 20 minutes for it to fully load until you'll see configuration screen in blue background.. It may look like its stuck but its actually not, i was so close all the time and just didn't wait for it to fully load.

 

[marduka]

Thx. That's a great guide.

I guess my main issue was the wrong BIOS setting.

OME works like a charme

 

[Hanzl]

what did the trick for me was to make sure i use virtio BLOCK

 

[marduka]

I tried two different instructions for the qcow import before Hais guide. Both used BIOS instead of UEFI. But Dell OME only works with UEFI. There is no information about this from Dell itself. As far as I can remember, I read it somewhere afterwards. During (successful) booting, OME also loads UEFI firmware.

I use VirtIO SCSI Single, obviously that works too.