OpenManage 5.3 and RHEL3 / VMware ESX 3 support

[Mark Foster]

wolf2k5 wrote:
> On Dec 2, 2007 12:35 AM, Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com> wrote:
>   
>> RHEL3 support was dropped several releases ago.
>>     
>
> That's weird, because VMware ESX 3 (which is based on RHEL3) is
> officially supported.
>
> Anyway my OM 5.3 installation on a PE1850 running RHEL3 seems to be
> running fine so far.
>
> Which issues do you anticipate I may be hitting?
>
>   
Folks,
I have 6 PE2950s which I am installing VMware ESX 3.0.2 on. Of course I
want to ensure they have the latest firmware and BIOS before going into
production.

I asked in a separate message to linux-poweredge about when/if ESX will
be a supported operating system. The support matrix[1] for 5.3 does NOT
list any version of ESX.

It does mention that "Dell OpenManage 5.1 was the last version to be
supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3" and ESX 3.0.2 is based upon
RHEL3. So I am lead to believe that the best course of action is to run
OMSA 5.1 and apply SUU 5.1 on these brand new 2950 systems?
Thanks.

[1] Dell™ Systems Software Support Matrix 5.3
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smsom/5.3/en/peosom/index.htm