Accessing the vsphere console, Vsphere console views, Vsphere console views 8 – Dell Emulex Family of Adapters User Manual

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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:

Cluster view

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:

The Emulex Device Management area.

The Information pane corresponding to the option or element selected in the

Emulex Device Management area.

The About area shows version information about the Emulex OneCommand

Manager for VMware vCenter.

Console buttons

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.

Refresh – Click to refresh the information. If a host is added to the currently

selected cluster, the host information is refreshed.

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.

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