Deployment Guide

Overview

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.

IT organizations today are often burdened by complex data centers that contain a mix of technologies

from different vendors and cumbersome operational tasks for delivering services while managing the

underlying infrastructure. These tasks are typically performed through multiple management consoles for

different physical and virtual resources, which can dramatically slow down service deployment.

ASM features an enhanced user interface that provides an intuitive, end-to-end infrastructure and

workload automation experience through a unified console. This speeds up workload delivery and

streamlines infrastructure management, enabling IT organizations to accelerate service delivery and time

to value for customers.

This document contains information about virtual appliance and software requirements of ASM, and the

resources supported by ASM such as chassis, servers, storage, network switches, and adapters.

About this Document

This document version is updated for ASM, version 8.1.

What is New in this Release

• FX2 Support

• Template based flexible BIOS and RAID configuration

• File upload for MXL configuration

• RHEL and Centos 7.0 support

• I/O Aggregator, Uplink, and VLT Configuration

• 13G server performance data report

• Seamless upgrade for the appliance, templates and services

• Import and Export ASM templates

• Add workload vLANs to running services

• Custom firmware bundles including updating the repository baseline