Users Guide

• Service deployment enhancements that allow:

– Validating resources at the template level that is even before the service is deployed.

• Support for deploying bare-metal operating system on certain interface cards using the virtual media

available on the server. For such cards, booting from PXE is not required.

• Added static IP support for non-DHCP environment or if you want to use static IP for your

deployment.

• Improved post OS configuration and flexibility in provisioning SD with RAID.

• New hardware support for planned Blueprint Reference Architectures (RAs) including virtualization

and cloud.

This release also includes compatibility support for the following:

• Dell Storage SC9000 arrays, Dell EqualLogic PS6610

• Expanded support for Intel 10Gb interface cards

• Support for VSAN Ready Node configuration for the Dell PowerEdge R730xd server platform. For

more information on VSAN Ready Node configuration, see https://www.vmware.com/resources/

compatibility/pdf/vi_vsan_rn_guide.pdf.

• Added support for RHEL 7.1 and 7.2

• Added support for CentOS 7.1 and 7.2

Accessing Online Help

Active System Manager (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:

• To open context-sensitive online help for the active page, click ?, and then click Help.

• To open context-sensitive online help for a dialog box, click ? in the dialog box.

Also, in the online help, use the Enter search items option in the Table of Contents to search for a

specific topic or keyword.