Users Guide

NOTE: The message displayed in the dialogue box is “ Updating the appliance restarts the
system. The action will log off all current users and cancel all jobs in progress.” It even
displayed the message “ The update process takes approximately 25 minutes depending on
your data connection: 15 minutes to download the update and 10 minutes to apply.” Apart
from these, it gives you information about number of logged-in users, and in progress jobs. At
the end, it asks for your confirmation “ Are you sure you want to perform an appliance update?”
8. After reading the message, if you decide that it’s good to proceed with update virtual appliance, click
Yes on the dialogue box.
It updates your appliance.
NOTE: This process restarts your system. Once update and restore is complete, you get logged in
again. Once the update process is complete, it redirects you to login page. In the meantime it
monitor the progress of update and keep giving message accordingly. At the end, you get a tab as
Click to log in. After you click the tab, you will be directed to login page to log in again to appliance.
Adding Dell ASM Service Tag
To add Dell ASM Service Tag:
1. On the home page, click Settings, and then click Virtual Appliance Management.
2. Under Dell ASM Service Tag, click Edit, type Dell ASM Service Tag, and click Save.
Virtual identity pools
In ASM, virtual identity pools provide a conceptual way to categorize the virtual identities that help in
network communication.
A virtual identity pool can include any combination of following virtual identities:
• MAC
• IQN
• WWPN
• WWNN
By default, virtual identities that are not assigned to any virtual identity pool are automatically assigned to
the Global pool.
After creating a virtual identity pool, you can assign the virtual identity pool to one or more templates. For
example, you might create a virtual identity pool to use for specific business units, such as Finance,
Human Resource, and for any specific application.
The Virtual Identity Pools page displays the following information about the virtual identity pools that are
configured in ASM:
• Name — Displays the name of the virtual identity pool.
• Description — Displays the description to identify the virtual identity pool.
• Created By — Displays the name of the user who created the virtual identity pool.
• Created Date — Displays the time that the virtual identity pool was created and last modified.
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