Users Guide

Table Of Contents

Getting started with ASM 8.3.1

When you rst log in to ASM, you are prompted with an Initial Setup wizard for initial appliance conguration, followed by the

Getting Started page. This page provides a guided ow through the common congurations that are required to prepare a new ASM

environment. A check mark on each step indicates that you have completed the step.

NOTE: The Getting Started page is not displayed for standard users.

NOTE: Ensure that you log in using admin as the user name and admin as the password.

The steps include:

• Step 1: Dene Networks — Dene Networks allows you to enter detailed information on the available networks in the

environment. This information is used later during deployments to congure servers and switches to have the right network

connectivity. The networks you dene in ASM are used in templates to specify the network or vLANs that are deployed on

servers and switches for your services in ASM. You can also click Settings → Network to dene, edit, or delete the existing

network. For more information about dening networks, see Dening or editing existing network.

• Step 2: Discover Resources — Discover Resources allows you to grant ASM access to resources (Servers, Chassis, Storage,

Neworking, Virtual Machine Managers) in the environment by providing ASM the management IP and credential for the

resources that are to be discovered.

• Step 3: Dene Existing Service — Dene Existing Service allows you to discover VMware clusters that are already deployed in

an environment and manage them within ASM.

• Step 4: Congure Resources — Congure Resources is used to perform the initial conguration of resources discovered by

ASM. This can be used to update rmware, congure management IPs and credentials, and congure Chassis Management

Controllers.

• Step 5: Publish Templates — Displays the Templates page. On this page, you can create template with requirements that must

be followed during deployments. Templates allow you to automate the process of conguring and deploying infrastructure and

workloads.

If you do not want to view the Getting Started page when you log in next time, clear the Show welcome screen on next launch

check box at the bottom of the page. To revisit the Getting Started page, select Getting Started from either the ASM drop down

menu, or from the Settings drop down menu.