Users Guide

– Full lifecycle management of physical and virtual infrastructure and workloads.
• Deep virtualization integration — Manage cluster-level and virtual machine (VM) lifecycle.
• Resource pooling and dynamic allocation — Optimize capital expenditures by creating and
managing physical and virtual IT resource pools.
• Radically simplified management — Powerful and intuitive user interface that makes it easy to set up,
deploy, and manage your IT environment and enables simplified integration with third party tools.
• Open and extensible — An architecture that integrates with the IT of today and tomorrow; this means
being able to plug a new solution into your existing architecture, as well as giving you flexibility in the
future to adopt new technical innovations.
ASM makes it easy to automate IT service delivery and to manage your IT environment end-to-end. You
can improve and accelerate service and infrastructure delivery, maximize efficiency across your IT service
lifecycle, and consistently achieve high-quality IT services.
About this document
This document version is updated for ASM release 8.1.1.
What’s New in this Release
Active System Manager release 8.1.1 consists primarily of additions to the compatibility matrix in support
of Dell Blueprints and Reference Architectures, and a new plugin for VMware vRealize Orchestrator that
uses the Applications Programming Interface (API) introduced earlier with ASM release 8.1.
The highlights of Active System Manager release 8.1.1 include the following:
• A new Active System Manager plugin to VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), which enables ASM
template deployment, scaling, and deprovisioning to be called from vRO orchestration workflows, or
published to the vRealize Automation (vRA) service catalog.
• Performance improvements to most of the ASM web application pages.
• Compatibility matrix additions, including those detailed below, to support the Dell Blueprint Reference
Architectures, including select reference architectures for the Virtualization, Cloud, and Unified
Communications and Collaboration Blueprints.
ASM release 8.1.1 build 5079 is an update to ASM release 8.1.1. It contains fixes and enhancements that
include:
• Improvement to the Discovery wizard flow and Resource page on the ASM web interface.
• Added log file size management.
• Improvement for greater deployment consistency.
• Configuration of ESXi High Availability (HA) after firmware updates.
• Filtering of servers based on the server pool and resource state.
This release also includes compatibility support for the following:
• Dell PowerEdge T630, PowerEdge T620, and PowerEdge C6320 servers
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