Users Guide

• Open and extensible — An architecture that integrates with the IT of today and tomorrow; this means being able to plug a new

solution into your existing architecture, as well as giving you flexibility in the future to adopt new technical innovations.

ASM makes it easy to automate IT service delivery and to manage your IT environment end-to-end. You can improve and accelerate

service and infrastructure delivery, maximize efficiency across your IT service lifecycle, and consistently achieve high-quality IT

services.

About this document

This document version is updated for ASM release 8.3.

What’s New in this Release

Active System Manager 8.3 is focused on expanding capabilities around workload deployment, adding new capabilities around

managing existing environments, and improving the granularity of information shown around the current state of environments

under management.

The highlights of Active System Manager release 8.3 include the following:

Support for Dell Hybrid Cloud for Virtualization that includes a new plug-in for compatibility with vRealize Orchestrator 7.0 and 7.1.

Customers can create workflow that automates the deployment of ASM service templates created in ASM.

This release also includes compatibility support for the following:

• Support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 that enables Dell's SAP HANA Cloud Solution to leverage ASM's hardware

compatibility list to offer ASM automation capabilities to customers.

• Support for PowerEdge R630, PowerEdge R730, PowerEdge R730XD hybrid and flash configurations, PowerEdge FC430,

PowerEdge FC630, and PowerEdge FX2- All flash configurations. Customers can leverage ASM capabilities to discover, deploy

and manage the VSAN ready nodes on Virtual SAN 6.2.

Accessing Online Help

Active System Manager (ASM) online help system provides context-sensitive help available from every page in the ASM user

interface.

After you log in to ASM user interface, you can access the online help in any of the following ways:

• To open context-sensitive online help for the active page, click? , and then click Help.

• To open context-sensitive online help for a dialog box, click? in the dialog box.

Also, in the online help, use the Enter search items option in the Table of Contents to search for a specific topic or keyword.