Install Guide

Contents
1 Overview......................................................................................................................... 5
About this Document......................................................................................................................................................... 5
What’s New in this Release................................................................................................................................................ 5
Accessing Online Help........................................................................................................................................................ 5
Other Documents You May Need....................................................................................................................................... 6
Contacting Dell Technical Support................................................................................................................................6
Licensing............................................................................................................................................................................ 6
Important Note................................................................................................................................................................... 7
ASM Port and Protocol Information.................................................................................................................................... 7
2 Installation and Quick Start............................................................................................. 9
Information Pre-requisites...................................................................................................................................................9
Installing Active System Manager.......................................................................................................................................9
Deployment Pre-requisites ...........................................................................................................................................9
Pre-requisites for System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)...................................................................... 14
Deploying ASM on VMware vSphere.......................................................................................................................... 14
Deploying ASM using SCVMM....................................................................................................................................15
Deploying ASM on Hyper-V Host................................................................................................................................ 16
Deploying ASM Appliance as Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)............................................................................16
Downloading Catalog File.................................................................................................................................................. 17
Updating the ASM Appliance............................................................................................................................................ 17
3 Conguring ASM Virtual Appliance................................................................................ 18
Changing Dell Administrator Password..............................................................................................................................18
Accessing the Initial Appliance Conguration ............................................................................................................. 18
Conguring Static IP Address in the Virtual Appliance.......................................................................................................18
Conguring Virtual Appliance with Two NICS....................................................................................................................19
Conguring ASM Virtual Appliance as PXE Boot Responder.............................................................................................19
4 Customizing Virtual Machine Templates for VMware and Hyper-V................................ 20
Customizing Virtual Machine Templates or Virtual Machines for VMware or Hyper-V...................................................... 20
Customizing Linux Template..............................................................................................................................................21
Customizing Windows Template.......................................................................................................................................23
Customizing the vCenter Windows Template .................................................................................................................. 25
5 Enabling EMC VNX Support..........................................................................................27
Installing Plug-ins for EMC to Support Volume Provisioning............................................................................................. 27
6 Completing Initial Conguration.................................................................................... 28
A Installing Windows ADK 8.1 for OS Prep for Windows................................................... 29
Creating WinPE Image and Updating Install Media for Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2........... 29
Adding OS Image Repositories................................................................................................................................... 30
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