What is new in this release

The following are the release highlights of OpenManage Storage Management and Server Administrator:

New features in OpenManage Storage Management:

  • Support for the following new controllers:
    • PERC 12 controllers: PERC H965i Adapter, PERC H965i Front, PERC H965i MX.
    • PERC S160 software RAID controller.
    • BOSS-N1 controllers are supported only on YX6X PowerEdge servers and later.

New features of PERC 12 controllers:

  • Support for NVMe Init Error drive enumeration
  • Support for encryption on Non-RAID physical disk (Advanced host Physical Disk).
  • Support for controller snap dump log collection using the controller Export Log task.

New features in OpenManage Server Administrator:

  • Oracle Java Runtime Environment 11.0.13 and Tomcat 9.0.54 are bundled with Server Administrator.
  • TLSv1.1 is removed and TLSv1.3 is added to the list of supported SSL Protocols. By default, server administrator supports TLSv1.2 and TLSv1.3.

New supported platforms are:

  • PowerEdge R660
  • PowerEdge R760
  • PowerEdge C6600
  • PowerEdge C6620
  • PowerEdge MX760C
  • Precision R7960

New supported operating systems are:

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2022
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5
  • Ubuntu Server 20.04.4 LTS
  • VMware ESXi 7.0 U3
  • VMware ESXi 8.0

Client operating systems supported on Dell EMC Precision R7960 are:

  • Microsoft Windows 10
  • Microsoft Windows 11
  • Ubuntu Desktop 20.04.4 LTS
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 client

New supported Network Interface Cards (NICs) are:

  • Intel(R) Ethernet 25G 2P E810-XXV-k Mezz
  • Intel(R) Ethernet 1G 4P I350-t OCP
  • Intel(R) Ethernet 10G 2P X710-T2L-t OCP
  • Emulex LPe36002 Dual Port Fibre Channel 64Gb Adapter
NOTE:  It is recommended to manage the Windows and Linux nodes through the managed node web interface or CLI, though OMSA allows managing remote systems through the central web interface, Distributed Web Server (DWS).
NOTE: For the list of supported operating systems and Dell EMC servers, see Dell EMC OpenManage Software Support Matrix in the required version of OpenManage Software at Dell.com/openmanagemanuals.
NOTE: For more information about features, see Dell EMC OpenManage Server Administrator Online Help.