DELL VD-4510c OpenManage Enterprise 3.2 Power Manager Version User Manual

DELL VD-4510c OpenManage Enterprise 3.2 Power Manager Version

Specifications

• Product Name : OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
• Version: 3.2
• Release Type: Major (MA)
• Supported Devices:
  • VxRail VD-4510c, VD-4520c, VD-4500w, VE-660, VP-760, VE-6615, VP-7625
  • XC series: XC660-10, XC660-12N, XC760-14, XC760-24, XC4000, XC660xs-4, XC660xs-4s, XC7625-14, XC760xa, XC7625-24
  • PowerEdge servers: PowerEdge T360, PowerEdge R360

Product Usage Instructions

New Features
The OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.2 introduces the following new features:

• Graphics processing unit (GPU) Monitor GPU
• Power supply unit (PSU) Monitor PSU
• Metrics Multivariate metrics
• Reports Generate reports for GPU, PSU, system profile, and workload profile data
• System profile View system and workload profiles configured in iDRAC

Resolved Issues
The following issues have been resolved in OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.2:

• Issue ID: Not available – Manage groups – Power Headroom Report for Physical Groups now calculates power values correctly
• Issue ID: Not available – Manage groups – Devices can now be added back to the Individual Devices tab without data loss.

OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager Version 3.2 Release Notes
This document describes the new features, changed features, resolved issues, known issues, and limitations in OpenManage
Enterprise Power Manager.

• Current Release Version: 3.2
• Release Type: Major (MA)

Topics:

• Revision history
• Product Description
• New features
• Resolved issues
• Known issues
• Limitations
• Environment and system requirements
• Installation and upgrade considerations
• Where to get help

Revision history

This section describes the document changes
Table 1. Document Revision history

Product Description

OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager is a plug-in to OpenManage Enterprise. It uses fine-grained instrumentation to provide increased visibility to power consumption, carbon emissions, system anomalies, and resource utilization on servers. Power
Manager supports monitoring of virtual machines and virtual machine groups; alerts and reports generation about thermal events in servers, chassis, and custom groups consisting of servers and chassis. This reporting enables increased control, faster response times, greater accuracy, and broader decision-making intelligence than is otherwise possible.

Table 2. Newly supported devices in OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.2

Model

• VxRail

Model numbers

• *VxRail VD-4510c
• *VxRail VD-4520c
• *VxRail VD-4500w
• *VxRail VE-660
• *VxRail VP-760
• *VxRail VE-6615

Model

• XC series
• PowerEdge servers
• PowerFlex

Model numbers

• VxRail VP-7625
• XC660-10
• XC660-12N
• XC760-14
• XC760-24
• XC4000
• XC660xs-4
• XC660xs-4s
• XC7625-14
• XC760xa
• XC7625-24
• PowerEdge T360
• PowerEdge R360
• PowerFlex Rack R640
• PowerFlex Rack R740xd
• PowerFlex Rack R840
• PowerFlex Rack R650
• PowerFlex Rack R750
• PowerFlex Rack R7525
• PowerFlex Rack R6525
• PowerFlex Appliance R640
• PowerFlex Appliance R740xd
• PowerFlex Appliance R840
• PowerFlex Appliance R650
• PowerFlex Appliance R750
• PowerFlex Appliance R7525
• PowerFlex Appliance R6525
• power flex Custom Node R640
• PowerFlex Custom Node R740xd
• PowerFlex Custom Node R840
• PowerFlex Custom Node R650
• PowerFlex Custom Node R750
• PowerFlex Custom Node R7525
• PowerFlex Custom Node R6525

MODEL| Model numbers

●    *VxRail VP-7625

---|---
XC series| ●    *XC660-10

●    * XC660-12N

●    * XC760-14

●    * XC760-24

●    * XC4000

●    * XC660xs-4

●    * XC660xs-4s

●    * XC7625-14

●    * XC760xa

●    * XC7625-24

PowerEdge servers| ●    *PowerEdge T360

●    *PowerEdge R360

PowerFlex| ●    *PowerFlex Rack R640

●    *PowerFlex Rack R740xd

●    *PowerFlex Rack R840

●    *PowerFlex Rack R650

●    *PowerFlex Rack R750

●    *PowerFlex Rack R7525

●    *PowerFlex Rack R6525

●    *PowerFlex Appliance R640

●    *PowerFlex Appliance R740xd

●    *PowerFlex Appliance R840

●    *PowerFlex Appliance R650

●    *PowerFlex Appliance R750

●    *PowerFlex Appliance R7525

●    *PowerFlex Appliance R6525

●    *PowerFlex Custom Node R640

●    *PowerFlex Custom Node R740xd

●    *PowerFlex Custom Node R840

●    *PowerFlex Custom Node R650

●    *PowerFlex Custom Node R750

●    *PowerFlex Custom Node R7525

●    *PowerFlex Custom Node R6525

For more information about the user documentation, see the OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager product support page on Dell support site

New features

The following table describes the features and enhancements that are introduced with OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.2.

Table 3. New features in OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager

coordinate visualization.
Functional area
Reports| Feature description
Generate reports| Summary of benefits
Generate reports for GPU, PSU, system profile, and workload profile data.
---|---|---
System profile| System and workload profiles| View the system and workload profiles that are configured in iDRAC.

For more information about the user documentation, see the OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager product support page on Dell support site.

Resolved issues

Table 4. Resolved issues in OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.2

Physical Groups, the power value that is considered for calculation of stranded power is the most recent metric instead of the maximum power value for the selected report duration.
Not available| Manage groups| By default, the devices that are part of a physical group are automatically added to Power Manager as individual devices and as a part of the group. When you log in as a Device Manager with access to this physical group,

you can remove devices from the Individual Devices tab, but cannot add the same devices back to the Individual Devices tab. However, you can view

the devices in the All Monitored Devices list, since they are part of the group, and there is no data loss of that device.

Not available| Upgrade| After upgrading to OpenManage Enterprise version 3.6, discovery and inventory jobs run automatically, and if Redfish protocol is available for a device, the Redfish protocol takes precedence over WS-Man protocol and all operations for that device happen through Redfish protocol. And, Power Manager-specific capabilities are not supported for Redfish capable devices until Power Manager is upgraded to 2.0. Hence, devices that are Redfish capable are removed from Power Manager groups.
Not available| Scope-based access control| A Device Manager user can view details of all the Virtual Machines that are monitored in Power Manager through REST API.
Not available| Manage groups| When you import a CSV file with more than 100 groups and devices, the group creation is successful, but the association of devices to the groups may fail, with the following error message on the Jobs page under Physical Group CSV Import Task job: Unable to complete the action because the value entered for GroupId is invalid.
Not available| Power Distribution Unit (PDU)| When you log in to Power Distribution Units (PDUs) with wrong credentials, an alert with:

OID : .1.3.6.1.6.3.1.1.5 specific trap ID: 0 generic trap ID: 5

is generated as an unknown trap in OpenManage Enterprise.

Not available| Manage groups| You can delete a physical group even if the EPR is applied on the group.
Not available| Alerts| Alerts are not generated in OpenManage Enterprise when the configured thresholds are violated on servers.
Not available| Alerts| Alerts are not generated in OpenManage Enterprise when the configured thresholds are violated on the chassis.
Not available| Alerts| A false critical alert is generated in OpenManage Enterprise versions 3.6.x even when the temperature value of the monitored group is in the normal temperature range.
Issue ID| Functional are a| Description
---|---|---
Not available| Manage groups| For Power Manager: Power Headroom Report for Physical Groups, the power value that is considered for calculation of stranded power is the most recent metric instead of the maximum power value for the selected report duration.
Not available| Manage groups| By default, the devices that are part of a physical group are automatically added to Power Manager as individual devices and as a part of the group. When you log in as a Device Manager with access to this physical group,

you can remove devices from the Individual Devices tab, but cannot add the same devices back to the Individual Devices tab. However, you can view

the devices in the All Monitored Devices list, since they are part of the group, and there is no data loss of that device.

Not available| Upgrade| After upgrading to OpenManage Enterprise version 3.6, discovery and inventory jobs run automatically, and if Redfish protocol is available for a device, the Redfish protocol takes precedence over WS-Man protocol and all operations for that device happen through Redfish protocol. And, Power Manager-specific capabilities are not supported for Redfish capable devices until Power Manager is upgraded to 2.0. Hence, devices that are Redfish capable are removed from Power Manager groups.
Not available| Scope-based access control| A Device Manager user can view details of all the Virtual Machines that are monitored in Power Manager through REST API.
Not available| Manage groups| When you import a CSV file with more than 100 groups and devices, the group creation is successful, but the association of devices to the groups may fail, with the following error message on the Jobs page under Physical Group CSV Import Task job: Unable to complete the action because the value entered for GroupId is invalid.
Not available| Power Distribution Unit (PDU)| When you log in to Power Distribution Units (PDUs) with wrong credentials, an alert with:

OID : .1.3.6.1.6.3.1.1.5 specific trap ID: 0 generic trap ID: 5

is generated as an unknown trap in OpenManage Enterprise.

Not available| Manage groups| You can delete a physical group even if the EPR is applied on the group.
Not available| Alerts| Alerts are not generated in OpenManage Enterprise when the configured thresholds are violated on servers.
Not available| Alerts| Alerts are not generated in OpenManage Enterprise when the configured thresholds are violated on the chassis.
Not available| Alerts| A false critical alert is generated in OpenManage Enterprise versions 3.6.x even when the temperature value of the monitored group is in the normal temperature range.

Known issues

Table 5. Known issues in OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.2

EPR on a device, the EPR operation may fail, and there is an entry in the Audit Logs.| Ensure that all the following conditions are met:

●    There is at least one device in the group that is eligible for applying EPR.

●    Throttle option is applicable for the following devices:

○    Server with iDRAC Enterprise license

○    PowerEdge M1000e or PowerEdge MX7000 chassis

●    Shutdown option is applicable only for servers.

Not available| Console and plugins|

After you reboot the OpenManage Enterprise appliance, if you try to perform any plug-in lifecycle- related actions for Power Manager, the job is initiated in the back-end but you still see the Console and Plugins page. And, the following message is displayed after some time: This page isn’t working

|

Wait for some time, and view the status. The plug-in lifecycle- related action is completed successfully.

Not available| Policies| For an MX7000 chassis, the power cap limit is displayed as same as the upper bound value. When you manually change the power cap percentage, the value is not updated and even if you change the value, the percentage is not updated.| Provide the power cap limit, and save the policy. The policy

imposes the specified power cap limit on the selected devices or groups.

Not available| Policies| Events are not generated for the following combination of temperature threshold violations:

●    Lower Warning to Upper Warning

●    Lower Critical to Upper Critical

●    Upper Warning to Lower Warning

●    Upper Critical to Lower Critical

| Provide realistic warning and critical values so that there are no immediate alert generating temperature changes.
Not available| Manage groups using REST API.| When you try to remove a device that is part of multiple groups using the REST API, then an error message is displayed.| To remove a device that is part of multiple groups,

remove the device from the

Issue ID/Functional area/Description/Workaround or Resolution

• group in OpenManage Enterprise. The changes are automatically

removed from a static group through OpenManage Enterprise, there are multiple entries of this update in the Audit Logs and Alert Log.| Not available
Not available| Manage settings using REST API.| When you change the power and temperature units in Power Manager through REST APIs and check for

the unit change updates in the UI, the updates are not reflected on the UI.

| To view the updates on the UI after changing the power and temperature units through REST APIs, refresh the browser.
Not available| Discovery| When you rediscover a device or an inventory job is in progress in OpenManage Enterprise, the following error message is displayed: Value entered for id is invalid| Add the devices in Power Manager after the discovery or inventory job is completed.
Not available| Manage groups| After creating a physical group, you may not see Create New Physical Group, Edit Group, Manage Rack, Delete Group, or Attributes options when you right-click any group.| Wait for some time or refresh

the page, and then right-click the group. All the relevant options are displayed.

14527| Online help| The search results are not displayed in online help for the Japanese language.| Not available
Not available| Upgrade| After you upgrade to OpenManage Enterprise version 3.6, discovery and inventory jobs run automatically, and if Redfish protocol is available for a device, the Redfish protocol takes precedence over WS-Man protocol and all operations for that device happen through Redfish protocol. And, Power Manager-specific capabilities are not supported for Redfish capable devices until Power Manager is upgraded to 2.0. Hence, devices that are Redfish capable are removed from Power Manager groups.| To view the devices that are Redfish-capable after upgrading to Power Manager version 2.0:

1.      Run Inventory in OpenManage Enterprise.

2.      Click the Refresh Power Manager capabilities option on the Power Manager Devices page in Power Manager.

Not available| Power Distribution Unit (PDU)| If you search for a PDU device in the global search of OpenManage Enterprise when Power Manager is

disabled, you can still view the PDU link in the search. However, if Power Manager is disabled, the PDU devices are not visible . Hence, after clicking the PDU link, you are redirected to the Devices page.

| Not available
209489| Upgrade| Appliance upgrade time might be between 1–10 hours depending on the number of devices being monitored using Power Manager.| Not available
230456| Virtual machines| When a VM is migrated from one hypervisor to another, the VM performance report—integrated and custom—displays only the data that is collected after migration.| Before migrating the VMs, ensure that you run the reports.

To view the VM metrics, use the REST API: /api/MetricService/ Metrics

230262| Virtual machines| When a VM is migrated from one hypervisor to another, the VM and server power metrics on the View Metrics page are partially displayed.| To view the VM and server power metrics, use the REST API: /api/ MetricService/Metrics
236651| Virtual machine groups| When you remove a VM from a group and the VM was not added to the group, a message that this operation cannot occur is not displayed. A success message is displayed in the Audit logs, but the VM is not removed.| Not available
239379| Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)| When a UPS is discovered using IPv6, the UPS console cannot be launched from the UPS details page.| Not available
---|---|---|---
252361| Metrics| If an MX7000 chassis having OpenManage Modular Advanced license is monitored in both Power Manager and CloudIQ plug-ins, power and thermal history graphs have data points missing at every 15th minute in the Device Metrics Trend graph.| View the power and thermal metrics in CloudIQ plugin.
249192| Back up and restore| If the task for automatically creating physical hierarchy is running, it is not forcefully ended even if the option for ending all running task is selected while taking a backup of OpenManage Enterprise.| Before taking backup, ensure that the task for automatically creating physical hierarchy is not running.
256044| Manage groups| Creating or modifying a device group in the Power Manager plug-in physical hierarchy, with a name already in use in the Services plug-in, is not permitted.| Use unique names across groups under Physical hierarchy and Services groups, and then try the operation again.
255988| Emergency Power Reduction (EPR)| When Staggered EPR Removal is enabled in Power Manager settings, EPR is not removed from target devices even if it is disabled from groups that have more than 42 EPR-capable devices.| To remove EPR from groups with more than 42 EPR-capable devices, ensure that you disable Staggered EPR Removal in PMP settings first.
259718| 16G PowerEdge servers| For servers with iDRAC firmware version 6.00.00.00 and later, the following metrics might be displayed intermittently in Power Manager. However, from iDRAC firmware version 7.00.00.00, the metrics

are displayed accurately: CPU Power Consumption, Memory Power Consumption, Storage Power Consumption, Fan Power Consumption , and System Airflow.

| Not available
261952| XR PowerEdge models| Unable to add the XR models—PowerEdge XR4510c and XR4520c—to the physical group rack slot.| Not available
257223| Reports| When you schedule Power Manager reports to CIFS or NFS network share, the report is saved as a 0 KB file.| Upgrade to the OpenManage Enterprise version 3.10.1.
273504 and

273507

| iDRAC password management| After password rotation occurs in iDRAC using CyberArk, there might be a delay in the Power Manager device operations—application of power cap, setting device location on servers, and Emergency Power Reduction—that are performed on servers.

Also, metric collection might be delayed during the interval when password rotation occurs in CyberArk.

| To avoid device communication failure after password rotation, configure CyberArk as per

the guidelines available in the OpenManage Enterprise User’s Guide.

278652| Power Manager overview| For the top 10 power and temperature offenders, the location of system profile groups is not available.| To view the location information, see the Power Manager – Metric Thresholds Report for Groups.
288035| Upgrade| When you upgrade OpenManage Enterprise from 4.0 to 4.0.1, the Power Manager System Profile group is not available in the Plugin Groups section.| Disable Power Manager and enable it. The system and workload profiles are displayed in the Power manager Devices > System Profile Groups section.

Limitations

Table 6. Limitations in OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.2

differ slightly due to the protocol designs.
Rack space capacity| When you add a device in a Rack physical group, the minimum size you can allocate for a device is 1U. In a PowerEdge

C-Series platform, you can accommodate two servers in 1U space. Hence, the space capacity calculations are not

accurate when C-Series platform servers are added to a Rack

physical group.

Environment and system requirements

For the complete list of supported devices, protocols, hardware, and web browsers, see OpenManage Enterprise Power
The Manager User’s Guide is available at the Dell support site.

Installation and upgrade considerations

Installation instructions

To monitor power and thermal data for devices or groups, install the Power Manager plug-in or extension on OpenManage
Enterprise.

NOTE: Installing a plug-in on OpenManage Enterprise restarts the appliance services.
For information about installing Power Manager, see OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager User’s Guide.

Upgrade instructions

Ensure that you are using OpenManage Enterprise version 3.1.
To upgrade to Power Manager version 3.2 from Power Manager version 3.1, do the following:

1. On the Console and Plugins page, click the refresh icon in the Check for Updates section. To go to the Console and Plugins page in OpenManage Enterprise, click Application Settings > Console and Plugins. Power Manager version 3.2 is now available for update.
2. Upgrade to Power Manager version 3.2
   NOTE: The settings that are configured in the older version of Power Manager are retained in the latest version of Power Manager

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Frequently Asked Questions

• Q: Where can I find more information about the user documentation?
  • A: For more information about the user documentation, visit the OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager product support page on the Dell support site.

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