Active System Manager Version 8.
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Contents 1 Overview.................................................................................................................4 2 Other Documents You May Need...................................................................... 5 3 Active System Manager Appliance Requirements.......................................... 6 Hypervisor and Management Requirements........................................................................................6 Browser Requirements....................................
Overview 1 Active System Manager (ASM) is Dell’s unified management product that provides a comprehensive infrastructure and workload automation solution for IT administrators and teams. ASM simplifies and automates the management of heterogeneous environments, enabling IT to respond more rapidly to dynamic business needs.
Other Documents You May Need 2 Go to http://www.dell.com/asmdocs for additional supporting documents such as: • Dell Active System Manager version 8.0 User’s Guide • Dell Active System Manager version 8.0 Release Notes • Dell Active System Manager version 8.0 Quick Installation Guide For more information about best practices, Dell solutions, and service, see Dell Active System Manager page on Dell TechCenter: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/converged-infrastructure/w/wiki/4318.
Active System Manager Appliance Requirements 3 Active System Manager runs as a virtual appliance on a Dell server configured with the following hardware and software: Resources Minimum Requirement vCPUs 2 Memory 16 GB Disk Space 40 GB Hypervisor and Management Requirements Software Component Supported Version VMware vSphere • 5.5 • 5.
Operating System Internet Explorer Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Not Supported Version 26 and Later Version 32 and Later Cent OS 6.
4 Supported Resources This section provides information about the resources supported by Active System Manager (ASM). The information has been segmented based on the resource types. Supported Bare Metal OS Software Component Firmware Version Windows • 2012 R2 • 2012 • 2008 R2 RHEL • 6.5 CentOS • 6.5 Supported Hypervisor Software Component Firmware Version Windows • 2012 • 2012 R2 • 5.5 • 5.
Software Component Firmware Version CentOS • * 6.5 Windows 2008 is supported as a virtual machine only and must be created through cloning. Supported Dell PowerEdge Chassis PowerEdge M1000e, version CMC 4.5 Supported PowerEdge Servers and Firmware Matrix The following table provides information about the supported servers.
Supported Cisco UCS Servers and Firmware Matrix Resource Firmware Supported From To Cisco UCS B200 M1 2.1(3b) 2.2(1d) Cisco UCS B440 M2 2.1(3b) 2.2(1d) Cisco UCS B420 M3 2.1(3b) 2.2(1d) Cisco UCS B22 M3 2.1(3b) 2.2(1d) Cisco UCS B250 M1 2.1(3b) 2.2(1d) Cisco UCS B200 M2 2.1(3b) 2.2(1d) Cisco UCS B230 M2 2.1(3b) 2.2(1d) Cisco UCS B200 M3 2.1(3b) 2.2(1d) Cisco UCS B420 M3 2.1(3b) 2.2(1d) Cisco UCS B22 M3 2.1(3b) 2.
Resources Firmware Supported From To Dell SC280 6.3 6.5.3.10 Dell SC4020 6.5 6.5.3.10 Supported Third-party Storage and Firmware Matrix The following table provides information about the supported third-party storage resources. Resources Firmware Supported From To NetApp FAS 22xx (NFS Only) ONTAP 8.0.4 (7 mode only) ONTAP 8.0.4 (7 mode only) NetApp FAS 32xx (NFS Only) ONTAP 8.0.4 (7 mode only) ONTAP 8.0.4 (7 mode only) NetApp FAS 62xx (NFS Only) ONTAP 8.0.4 (7 mode only) ONTAP 8.0.
Firmware Supported Resource Brocade 6510 Brocade * M6505* Flex IO Module * Indicates From To 7.2.0.a 7.2.0.a v7.2.0.a v7.2.0.a N/A N/A that the resource is supported only in ASM 7.5.1 and later versions. (Only for ESXi) Supported Adapters and Firmware Matrix The following table provides information about the supported adapters.
