Install Guide
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Overview
Active System Manager (ASM) is Dell’s unied management product that provides a comprehensive infrastructure and workload
automation solution for IT administrators and teams. ASM simplies and automates the management of heterogeneous
environments, enabling IT to respond more rapidly to dynamic business needs. IT organizations today are often burdened by complex
data centers that contain a mix of technologies from dierent vendors and cumbersome operational tasks for delivering services
while managing the underlying infrastructure. These tasks are typically performed through multiple management consoles for
dierent physical and virtual resources, which can dramatically slow down service deployment. ASM features an enhanced user
interface that provides an intuitive, end-to-end infrastructure and workload automation experience through a unied console. This
speeds up workload delivery and streamlines infrastructure management, enabling IT organizations to accelerate service delivery and
time to value for customers.
This document contains information about virtual appliance and software requirements of ASM, and the resources supported by
ASM such as chassis, servers, storage, network switches, and adapters.
About this Document
This document version is updated for ASM release 8.3.1.
What’s New in this Release
Active System Manager 8.3.1 is focused on expanding capabilities around vSAN deployment, adding new capabilities around
managing Ready Bundle for Virtualization, the industry's most exible converged system oering in a virtualized environment. For
more information about the supported hardware components, see the ASM 8.3.1 Compatibility Matrix at dell.com/asmdocs.
The highlights of the Active System Manager Release 8.3.1 include the following:
• Support for the SATADOM boot option for Dell PowerEdge R630, PowerEdge R730, and PowerEdge R730xd systems.
• Support for the Dell Storage Center Operating system (SCOS) 7.1, which promotes greater ash adoption and increased data
eciency.
• Extended ASM plug-in support for vRealize Orchestrator 7.1.
• Support for virtual SAN (vSAN) 6.5, which oers improved scalability, exibility, and automation capabilities.
This release also includes compatibility support for the following:
• Support of the vSAN congurations for the Ready Bundle for Virtualization
– PowerEdge R630, PowerEdge R730, PowerEdge R730XD hybrid congurations.
– PowerEdge FC430, PowerEdge FC630, and PowerEdge FX2 - all ash congurations.
Accessing Online Help
ASM online help system provides context-sensitive help available from every page in the ASM user interface.
Log in to the ASM user interface with the user name admin and then enter password admin, and press Enter.
After you log in to ASM user interface, you can access the online help in any of the following ways:
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