Release Notes

New in this Release
Active System Manager 8.2 is focused on expanding capabilities around workload deployment,
adding new capabilities around managing existing environments, and improving the granularity
of information shown around the current state of environments under management.
The highlights of Active System Manager release 8.2 include the following:
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Open Platform Support that includes:
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Application module SDK and multi-application support
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Architectural work to support modularity and to enable a plug-in SDK framework
for resource modules, starting with the application level.
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Creating Puppet-based application modules and importing the modules in the
ASM templates.
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Improved user interface
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Expanded infrastructure and service level monitoring:
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Infrastructure health monitoring includes chassis, servers, I/O modules, storage
devices, and networking devices.
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Service health provides an aggregated view based on services deployed to
provide a window into service level health.
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Port view virtualization
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A graphical view that provides a mapping of physical to virtual infrastructure and
clear notification of connectivity issues.
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Brownfield support to facilitate installing ASM into the existing environment
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Includes support for importing existing ESXi hosts and clusters as ASM resources,
and the ability use them without requiring ASM to have originally provisioned
them. It also enables key features including infrastructure level health and
firmware updates.
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Service deployment enhancements that allow:
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Validating resources at the template level that is even before the service is
deployed.
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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.
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Added static IP support for non-DHCP environment or if you want to use static IP for
your deployment.
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Improved post OS configuration and flexibility in provisioning SD with RAID.
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New hardware support for planned Blueprint Reference Architectures (RAs) including
virtualization and cloud.
This release also includes compatibility support for the following:
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Storage: Dell Storage SC9000 arrays, Dell EqualLogic PS6610
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Expanded support for Intel 10 Gb interface cards
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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.
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Added support for RHEL 7.1 and 7.2
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Added support for CentOS 7.1 and 7.2