Release Notes

New in this Release

Active System Manager 8.3.1 is focused on expanding capabilities around the vSAN deployment, adding new capabilities around managing

Ready Bundle for Virtualization, and improving the granularity of information shown around the current state of environments under

management.

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 flash adoption and increased data

efficiency.

• Extended ASM plug-in support for vRealize Orchestrator 7.1

• Support for virtual SAN (vSAN) 6.5, which offers improved scalability, flexibility, and automation capabilities.

This release also includes compatibility support for the following:

• Support of the vSAN configurations for the Ready Bundle for Virtualization

• PowerEdge R630, PowerEdge R730, PowerEdge R730XD - hybrid configurations

• PowerEdge FC430, PowerEdge FC630, and PowerEdge FX2 - all flash configurations

For more information about the components supported in the 8.3.1 release, see the Active System Manager Release 8.3.1

Compatibility Matrix at Dell.com/asmdocs.

ASM release 8.3.1 build 7128 is an update to ASM release 8.3. It also includes the following fixes and enhancements:

• Enhanced service details page to display all static IP addresses assigned to virtual machines.

• Added ability to use the HTTPS protocol to perform ASM appliance upgrades from local servers.

• Added ability to configure ports that can be used to verify if an IP address is in use, to prevent certain firewalls from causing all IP

addresses to appear to be in use.

• Extended timeout for vCenter discovery to prevent some discoveries from failing due to large or geographically distributed vCenter

environments.

• Resolved an issue where the Windows VM deployments failed on first attempt due to the time change on the VM during deployment.

• Resolved an issue where server discovery failed with certain chassis firmware versions.

• Resolved an issue where upgrading older versions of the ASM appliance to a latest version failed.

Important Notes

To support interoperability, ASM 8.3.1 requires:

• The following resource locales are set to English:

• Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)

• VMware vCenter

• Dell EqualLogic

• Dell Compellent

• Dell Chassis Management Controller (CMC)

• Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)

• NetApp

• All Physical server OS installations must be in English to support unattended installation process.

• The credentials used for all the external systems that ASM interfaces to must be in English. For example, Virtual Machine Manager

Credentials for systems such as SCVMM and VMware vCenter must be in English so that ASM can provision to these environments.

• DNS names must be in English.

Fixes

This release includes improvements and bug fixes, including the following previously reported Known Issues that are now resolved:

• ASM-7003—Resolved an issue where manually created VMware Virtual Distributed Switch (VDS) are not displayed in the list of

switches in the template.

• ASM-7745—Resolved an issue where clicking the Export All option on the Resources page, exported only the first page.

Active System Manager Release 8.3.1 Release Notes