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, 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
• Deployment improvements including the ability to assign a specific hostname to IP address and pick a
specific server for a deployment
Accessing Online Help
Active System Manger (ASM) online help system provides context-sensitive help available from every page
in the ASM user interface.
After you log in to ASM user interface, you can access the online help in any of the following ways:
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