Users Guide

provides information about the valid component combinations supported for template creation. In each vertical column of the table,

an X indicates the set of components that can be used together in the same template. For example, reading from the left, a

template may contain the following component combinations:

• Storage only

• Storage and Server

• Storage, Server, and Cluster

• Storage, Server, Cluster, and Virtual Machine

• Storage, Server, Cluster, Virtual Machine, and Application

• Server only

• Server and Application

• Cluster only

• Cluster and Virtual Machine

• Cluster, Virtual Machine, and Application

• Server, Cluster, and Virtual Machine

Table 9. Valid template Combinations in templates

Application x x x

Virtual

Machine

x x x x x

Cluster x x x x x x x x

Server x x x x x

Storage x x x x

NOTE: X's in column indicate components that can be used together in a template

Additional template information

This section provides more details, including pre-requisites, for creating or deploying certain types of templates.

Deploying ESXi cluster for SAN applications

NOTE: This feature is supported only in ASM, version 7.5.1 and later.

When planning to deploy ESXi clusters for SAN applications using Dell Compellent Storage and Brocade SAN switch 6510, there are

certain prerequisites to consider, and guidelines that should be followed when creating a template, deploying a service, and cleaning

up deployments.