Users Guide

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Contents

1 Overview.................................................................................................................8

About this document............................................................................................................................ 9

What’s New in this Release................................................................................................................... 9

Accessing Online Help........................................................................................................................ 10

Other documents you may need....................................................................................................... 10

Contacting Dell Technical Support............................................................................................... 11

Licensing...............................................................................................................................................11

2 Getting started with ASM 8.2............................................................................13

3 Initial Setup.......................................................................................................... 15

Uploading License............................................................................................................................... 15

Configuring time zone and NTP settings........................................................................................... 16

Configuring proxy settings..................................................................................................................16

Configure DHCP settings.................................................................................................................... 17

Verifying initial setup............................................................................................................................17

4 Dashboard............................................................................................................18

Service states.......................................................................................................................................20

5 Services................................................................................................................. 21

Deploy Service.....................................................................................................................................22

Add existing service.............................................................................................................................24

Adding an existing service.............................................................................................................24

Viewing Service Details....................................................................................................................... 25

Component deployment states....................................................................................................28

Editing service information.................................................................................................................28

Deleting service...................................................................................................................................29

Exporting service details..................................................................................................................... 29

Retry Service........................................................................................................................................30

View All Settings..................................................................................................................................30

Migrating servers (service mobility)....................................................................................................30

Migration prerequisites................................................................................................................. 30

Migrating servers..................................................................................................................................31

Upgrade Components.........................................................................................................................31

Adding components to an existing service deployments..................................................................31

Adding clusters to existing service................................................................................................32

Adding Virtual Machines to existing service.................................................................................32